Key facts
- Mission type
- Venus orbiter / lander
- Operator
- Lavochkin
- Cospar id
- 1975-054A 1975-054D (lander)
- Satcat number span no
- 7947 8423
- Mission duration
- Travel: 4 months and 9 days, Orbiter: 144 days, Lander: 65 minutes, Last contact: 286 days
- Spacecraft type
- 4V-1 No. 661
- Manufacturer
- Lavochkin
- Launch mass
- 5,033 kg (11,096 lb)
- Bol mass
- 2,230 kg (4,920 lb)
- Landing mass
- 1,560 kg (3,440 lb)
- Dimensions
- 2.7 m × 2.3 m × 5.7 m (8.9 ft × 7.5 ft × 18.7 ft)
- Launch date
- June 14, 1975 ( 1975-06-14 ) , 03:00:31 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton with upper and escape stages
- Launch site
- Baikonur 81/24
- Last contact
- [Orbiter transmitted] data until at least June 1976.
- Reference system
- Cytherocentric
- Pericytherion altitude
- 1,620 kilometers (1,010 mi)
- Apocytherion altitude
- 113,900 kilometers (70,800 mi)
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Encyclopedic overview
Venera 10 (Russian: Венера-10 meaning Venus 10), or 4V-1 No. 661, was a Soviet uncrewed space mission to Venus. It consisted of an orbiter and a lander. It was launched on June 14, 1975, 03:00:31 UTC and had a mass of 5033 kg (11096 lb).
Orbiter
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Venera 10” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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