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Also known as Venus Radar Mapper, VRM, Venus Orbiting Imaging Radar, VOIR, Magellan spacecraft, Magellan orbiter
NASA robotic space probe that studied the planet Venus
Key facts
- Mission type
- Venus orbiter
- Operator
- NASA / JPL
- Cospar id
- 1989-033B
- Website
- science.nasa.gov
- Mission duration
- 5 years, 5 months and 9 days
- Manufacturer
- Martin Marietta , Hughes Aircraft
- Launch mass
- 3,445 kg (7,595 lb)
- Dry mass
- 1,035 kg (2,282 lb)
- Power
- ~1,030 watts
- Launch date
- May 4, 1989, 18:47:00 ( 1989-05-04UTC18:47Z ) UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle Atlantis , STS-30 / IUS
- Launch site
- Kennedy LC-39B
- Disposal
- Deorbited
- Decay date
- October 13, 1994, 10:05:00 ( 1994-10-13UTC10:06Z ) UTC
- Reference system
- Cytherocentric
- Semi major axis
- 10,470 kilometers (6,510 mi)
- Pericytherion altitude
- 295 kilometers (183 mi)
- Apocytherion altitude
- 7,762 kilometers (4,823 mi)
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Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Ferdinand Magellan
- Operator
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Country of origin
- United States
- Duration
- 1988
- Parent body
- Venus
- Mass
- 1035
- Manufacturer
- Hughes Aircraft Company
- Official website
- solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/magellan/in-depth
- Image
- Magellan - artist depiction.png
- Width
- 9.2
- Length
- 6.3627
- Significant event
- atmospheric entry
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- start point
- Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1989-05-04
- Commons category
- Magellan (spacecraft)
- time of object orbit decay
- 1994-10-13
- space launch vehicle
- Space Shuttle
- orbits completed
- 15032
- capital cost
- 680000000
- powered by
- spacecraft solar array
- funder
- CNES
- space tug
- Inertial Upper Stage
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