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Mission
Kind: Venus lander
State: Partial failure
Place: Venus
Operator: Lavochkin
Instruments: 1) COP-18-4M, 2) GS-4, 3) ITD, 4) DOW-1M,
Date
Start:
Duration: Travel: 120 daysLander: 23 minutes
Mission Ending
Last Contact: 15 December 1970, 06:00 (1970-12-15UTC07Z) UTC
Rocket
Rocket: Molniya 8K78M
Kind: Lavochkin
Manufacturer: Lavochkin
Mass: 1,180 kilograms (2,600 lb)
Launch Site: Baikonur 31/6
Flyby
"Requesting permission for flyby." Maverick - Top Gun
Orbit
Reference System: Heliocentric
Lander
Place: Venus
Region: 05°S 351°E / 5°S 351°E / -5, 351
Date: 15 December 1970, 05:37:10 UTC
Venera 7 (Russian: Венера-7, meaning Venus 7) was a Soviet spacecraft, part of the Venera series of probes to Venus. When it landed on the Venusian surface on December 15, 1970, it became the first spacecraft to soft land on another planet and first to transmit data from there back to Earth.
