Vega 1 - The Venus Mission

The Venus Mission

The decent module arrived at Venus on 11 June 1985, two days after being released from the Vega 1 flyby probe. The module, a 1500 kg, 240 cm diameter sphere, contained a surface lander and a balloon explorer. The flyby probe performed a gravitational assist maneuver using Venus, and continued its mission to intercept the comet.

Read more about this topic:  Vega 1

Famous quotes containing the words venus and/or mission:

    “For her own person,
    It beggared all description: she did lie
    In her pavilion—cloth of gold, of tissue—
    O’er-picturing that Venus where we see
    The fancy outwork nature.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “The mission is too important to allow you to jeopardize it.”
    —Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928)