Observations and Explorations of Venus - Observation By Spacecraft

Observation By Spacecraft

There have been numerous unmanned missions to Venus. Ten Soviet probes have achieved a soft landing on the surface, with up to 110 minutes of communication from the surface, all without return. Launch windows occur every 19 months, and from 1962 to 1985, every window was utilized to launch reconnaissance probes.

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