Re: space probes to/past Venus in last twenty years


If you count December of 1994 as less than twenty years, then you can count
the Soviet Vega 1 and Vega 2 missions. Their primary target was Halley's
comet, but they did fly by Venus and drop off both landers and atmospheric
probes. The balloons each lasted for a couple of days, and one of the
landers made it down in working order.

Galileo did a fly by in 1989 on the way to Jupiter. I think it took some
snapshots.

Magellan was in orbit doing radar mapping from 1989 to 1994.

That's all I can think off.



"Jim Oberg" <jameseoberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:eHCye.122396$PR6.91756@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Only one space mission visited Venus in
> the past 20 years, by my count (T-shirt for
> corrections), but a number of probes made
> Venus-fly-bys on their way elesewhere --
> does anybody have a complete list? I'm doing
> a pre-flight piece on Venus-Express.
>
>


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