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    The Venus Orbiter Mission (VOM), unofficially known as Shukrayaan (Sanskrit: Śukra 'Venus', Yāna 'Craft, Vehicle'), is a planned Indian Space Research...
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    The Pioneer Venus Orbiter, also known as Pioneer Venus 1 or Pioneer 12, was a mission to Venus conducted by NASA as part of the Pioneer Venus project. Launched...
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    gravity-assist flybys) space missions to the planet Venus. Missions to Venus constitute part of the exploration of Venus. The Soviet Union followed by...
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  • insertion of the Mars Orbiter Mission (also called Mangalyaan) into Martian orbit, ISRO announced its intent to launch a second mission to Mars at the Engineers...
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  • Jones, Andrew (18 September 2024). "India approves moon sample return, Venus orbiter, space station module and reusable launcher". SpaceNews. Retrieved 18...
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    launched to Venus in 1978. The program was managed by NASA's Ames Research Center. The Pioneer Venus Orbiter entered orbit around Venus on December 4...
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    the Venus Climate Orbiter (VCO) and Planet-C, was a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) space probe tasked with studying the atmosphere of Venus. It...
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    Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) also known as Mangalyaan. The IDSN32 antenna will be used for science data collection from the Venus Orbiter Mission Spacecraft...
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    revealed VOICE orbiter mission (Venus Volcano Imaging and Climate Explorer) launching in 2026 and arrive in Venus by 2027. VOICE's mission was expected...
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    environment. Solar Orbiter has inherited technology from previous missions, such as the solar arrays from the BepiColombo Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO). The...
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    science data from its polar orbit around Venus. Equipped with seven scientific instruments, the main objective of the mission was the long term observation...
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    Venus has an orbit with a semi-major axis of 0.723 au (108,200,000 km; 67,200,000 mi), and an eccentricity of 0.007. The low eccentricity and comparatively...
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    currently in the primary phase with Orbiter missions. There has been a single mission so far that deployed an orbiter around the planet which later lost...
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    Discovery program EnVision, an ESA mission to Venus in the same timeframe Venus Orbiter Mission, an ISRO mission to Venus in the same timeframe. "Overview...
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    USSR Venus orbiter and lander (1961–1984) Pioneer Venus project — US Venus orbiter and entry probes (1978) Vega program — USSR mission to Venus and Comet...
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    redirect targets Venus Orbiter Mission List of ISRO missions List of Mars orbiters List of missions to Mars Mars Express – European orbiter mission to Mars (2003–present)...
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    The Uranus Orbiter and Probe is an orbiter mission concept to study Uranus and its moons. The orbiter would also deploy an atmospheric probe to characterize...
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    EnVision (category Missions to Venus)
    Venus List of missions to Venus Akatsuki, a Japanese Venus orbiter DAVINCI, a NASA orbiter and atmospheric probe Magellan, a NASA Venus orbiter Venus...
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    DAVINCI (category Missions to Venus)
    Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging) is a planned mission for an orbiter and atmospheric probe to the planet Venus. Together...
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    Manned Venus Flyby was a 1967–1968 NASA proposal to send three astronauts on a flyby mission to Venus in an Apollo-derived spacecraft in 1973–1974, using...
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    Venera 9 (category Non Earth orbiting satellites of the Soviet Union)
    The orbiter was the first spacecraft to orbit Venus, while the lander was the first to return images from the surface of another planet. The orbiter entered...
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    mapping mission to Venus. They first sought to construct a spacecraft named the Venus Orbiting Imaging Radar (VOIR), but it became clear that the mission would...
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  • Venera-D (category Missions to Venus)
    a proposed Russian space mission to Venus that would include an orbiter and a lander to be launched in 2029. The orbiter's prime objective is to perform...
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    Venera 10 (category Non Earth orbiting satellites of the Soviet Union)
    (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...
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    Axiom Mission 4 (or Ax-4) is a private spaceflight to the International Space Station. The flight will be launched no earlier than Spring 2025 and will...
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    Mission) FRESIP-A mission to Find the Frequency of Earth-sized Inner Planets Hermes Global Orbiter (Mercury Orbiter) Icy Moon Mission (Lunar Orbiter)...
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    with projects such as Europa Orbiter and Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter, in which a spacecraft would be injected into orbit around Europa. However, due to...
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  • Fram2 (category Fully civilian crewed orbital spaceflights)
    private human spaceflight mission, operated by SpaceX on behalf of entrepreneur Chun Wang. During the mission, the 16th crewed orbital flight of a Crew Dragon...
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    with the Pioneer Venus project, consisting of two separate missions: the Pioneer Venus Multiprobe and Pioneer Venus Orbiter, orbiting Venus between 1978 and...
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    Commercial Crew Program flight and the 17th crewed orbital flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft. The mission will transport four crew members – NASA astronauts...
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