Pioneer Venus Multiprobe

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

07:33:00

Tuesday August 8, 1978

Watch Replay

Official Livestream

Mission Details

Pioneer Venus Multiprobe

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The Pioneer Venus Multiprobe, also known as Pioneer Venus 2 or Pioneer 13, was a spacecraft launched in 1978 to explore Venus as part of NASA's Pioneer program. This part of the mission included a spacecraft bus that was launched from Earth carrying one large and three smaller probes, which after separating penetrated the Venusian atmosphere at a different location, returning data as they descended into the planet's thick atmosphere. The entry occurred on December 9, 1978.

Heliocentric Orbit

1 Payload

904 kilograms

Rocket

Retired
Atlas-SLV3D Centaur-D1AR

Active 1975 to 1983


Stages

2

Launch Site

SLC-36A

Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA

Fastest Turnaround

46 days 2 hours

Stats

Atlas-Centaur


48th

Mission

6th

Mission of 1978

1978


80th

Orbital launch attempt