Venera 10

Short description: Space probe

Venera 10

Venera 10

Mission type| Venus orbiter / lander
Operator| Lavochkin
COSPAR ID|

* 1975-054A
* 1975-054D (lander)

SATCAT no.|

* 7947[1]
* 8423[2]

Mission duration| Travel: 4 months and 9 days
Orbiter: 144 days
Lander: 65 minutes
Last contact: 286 days
Spacecraft properties
Spacecraft type| 4V-1 No. 661[3]
Manufacturer| Lavochkin[3]
Launch mass| 5,033 kg (11,096 lb)[3]
BOL mass| 2,230 kg (4,920 lb)
Landing mass| 1,560 kg (3,440 lb)
Dimensions| 2.7 m × 2.3 m × 5.7 m (8.9 ft × 7.5 ft × 18.7 ft)
Start of mission
Launch date| June 14, 1975 (1975-06-14), 03:00:31 UTC[3]
Rocket| Proton with upper and escape stages
Launch site| Baikonur 81/24[3]
End of mission
Last contact| "[Orbiter transmitted] data until at least June 1976."[3]
Orbital parameters
Reference system| Cytherocentric
Eccentricity| 0.8798
Pericytherion altitude| 1,620 kilometers (1,010 mi)
Apocytherion altitude| 113,900 kilometers (70,800 mi)
Inclination| 29.5°
Period| 49.4 hours
Revolution no.| 71
Venus orbiter
Orbital insertion| October 23, 1975
Venus lander
Spacecraft component| Venera 10 descent craft
Landing date| 02:17, October 25, 1975
Landing site|  [ ⚑ ] 15°25′N 291°31′E﻿ / ﻿15.42°N 291.51°E﻿ / 15.42; 291.51
(near Beta Regio)

Venera

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Venera 11 ->

Venera 10 (Russian: Венера-10 meaning Venus 10), or 4V-1 No. 661,[4] was a Soviet uncrewed space mission to Venus. It consisted of an orbiter and a lander. It was launched on June 14, 1975, 03:00:31 UTC and had a mass of 5033 kg (11096 lb).[5]

## Contents

* 1 Orbiter
* 2 Lander
* 3 See also
* 4 References

## Orbiter

When the mission launched, the Soviet Union only disclosed that the mission's objective was to explore Venus and the surrounding space. Western sources speculated that the spacecraft contained a lander.[6]

The orbiter entered Venus orbit on October 23, 1975. Its mission was to serve as a communications relay for the lander and to explore cloud layers and atmospheric parameters with several instruments and experiments:[7]

* 1.6–2.8 μm IR Spectrometer
* 8–28 μm IR Radiometer
* 352 nm UV Photometer
* 2 Photopolarimeters (335–800 nm)
* 300–800 nm Spectrometer
* Lyman-α H/D Spectrometer
* Bistatic radar mapping
* CM, DM radio occultations
* Triaxial Magnetometer
* 345–380 nm UV Camera
* 355–445 nm Camera
* 6 Electrostatic analyzers
* 2 Modulation Ion Traps
* Low-Energy Proton / Alpha detector
* Low-Energy Electron detector
* 3 Semiconductor counters
* 2 Gas-Discharge counters
* Cherenkov detector

The orbiter consisted of a cylinder with two solar panel wings and a high gain parabolic antenna attached to the curved surface. A bell-shaped unit holding propulsion systems was attached to the bottom of the cylinder, and mounted on top was a 2.4 metres (7 ft 10 in) sphere which held the landers. To reach Venus, the spacecraft traveled in a heliocentric orbit from Earth to the planet with perihelion of 0.72 AU, apohelion of 1.02 AU, eccentricity of 0.17, inclination of 2.3 degrees and orbital period of 294 days.

## Lander

On October 23, 1975, the lander separated from the orbiter, and touched down with the sun near zenith, at 05:17 UT, on October 25. A system of circulating fluid was used to distribute the heat load. This system, plus precooling prior to entry, permitted operation of the spacecraft for 65 minutes after landing. During descent, heat dissipation and deceleration were accomplished sequentially by protective hemispheric shells, three parachutes, a disk-shaped drag brake, and a compressible, metal, doughnut-shaped, landing cushion.[7]

* Landing area of Venera 10 as mapped by the Magellan orbiter

* Surface of Venus as photographed by the Venera 10 lander

It landed near the border area between Beta Regio and Hyndla Regio[8] (within a 150 km radius of  [ ⚑ ] 15°25′N 291°31′E﻿ / ﻿15.42°N 291.51°E﻿ / 15.42; 291.51), three days after the touchdown of, and 2200 km from Venera 9.[9] Venera 10 measured a surface windspeed of 3.5 m/s. Other measurements included atmospheric pressure at various heights, and temperature, and surface light levels. Venera 10 was the second probe to send back black and white television pictures from the Venusian surface (after Venera 9). Venera 10 photographs showed lava rocks of pancake shape with lava or other weathered rocks in between. Planned 360 degree panoramic pictures could not be taken because, as with Venera 9, one of two camera lens covers failed to come off, limiting pictures to 180 degrees.

The lander communicated with Earth using the Venera 10 orbiter as a communication relay.[10]

Lander payload:[7]

* Temperature and pressure sensors
* Accelerometer
* Visible / IR photometer – IOV-75
* Backscatter and multi-angle nephelometers – MNV-75
* P-11 Mass spectrometer – MAV-75
* Panoramic telephotometers (2, with lamps)
* Anemometer – ISV-75
* Gamma-ray spectrometer – GS-12V
* Gamma ray densitometer – RP-75
* Radio Doppler experiment

## See also

* List of missions to Venus
* Timeline of artificial satellites and space probes

## References

1. ↑ "Venera 10 Bus". https://www.n2yo.com/satellite/?s=7947.
2. ↑ "Venera 10 Descent Craft". https://www.n2yo.com/satellite/?s=8423.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Siddiqi, Asif A. (2018). Beyond Earth: A Chronicle of Deep Space Exploration, 1958–2016. The NASA history series (second ed.). Washington, DC: NASA History Program Office. pp. 128–129. SP2018-4041. ISBN 978-1-62683-042-4. https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/beyond-earth-tagged.pdf.
4. ↑ Zak, Anatoly. "Venera-9 and 10". Russianspaceweb.com. http://www.russianspaceweb.com/venera75.html.
5. ↑ "Venera 10". National Space Science Data Center. https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1975-054A.
6. ↑ "Soviet Launches a 2D Spacecraft". The New York Times. Associated Press: p. 23. June 15, 1975. https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1975/06/15/118450281.html?pageNumber=23.
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Mitchell, Don P.. "First Pictures of the Surface of Venus". http://mentallandscape.com/V_Lavochkin2.htm.
8. ↑ LePage, Andrew (October 22, 2015). "Venera 9 and 10 to Venus". http://www.drewexmachina.com/2015/10/22/venera-9-and-10-to-venus/.
9. ↑ Interplanetary Spacecraft
10. ↑ "Venera 10 Descent Craft". National Space Science Data Center. https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1975-054D.

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Venera programme

Flybys|

* Venera 1
* Venera 2

Orbiters|

* Venera 15
* Venera 16

Descent probes|

* Venera 3
* Venera 4
* Venera 5
* Venera 6
* Venera 7

Landers|

* Venera 8
* Venera 9
* Venera 10
* Venera 11
* Venera 12
* Venera 13
* Venera 14

Failed launches|

* Tyazhely Sputnik
* Venera 2MV-1 No.1
* Venera 2MV-1 No.2
* Venera 2MV-2 No.1
* Kosmos 21
* Venera 3MV-1 No.2
* Kosmos 27
* Kosmos 96
* Kosmos 167
* Kosmos 359
* Kosmos 482
* Venera 1964A

Future missions|

* Venera-D

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Spacecraft missions to Venus

Active missions|

| Orbiters|

* Akatsuki

|

Flybys|

* Parker Solar Probe (en route)
* BepiColombo (en route)

Past missions|

| Orbiters|

* Magellan
* Pioneer Venus Orbiter
* Venera 9
* 10
* 15
* 16
* Venus Express

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Flybys|

* Venera 1†
* Mariner 2
* Zond 1†
* Venera 2†
* Mariner 5
* 10
* Venera 11
* 12
* 13
* 14
* Vega 1
* 2
* Galileo
* Cassini–Huygens
* MESSENGER
* IKAROS
* Shin-en†

Descent probes|

* Venera 3†
* 4
* 5
* 6
* Pioneer Venus Multiprobe

Landers|

* Venera 7
* 8
* 9
* 10
* 11
* 12
* 13
* 14
* Vega 1
* 2
* Pioneer Venus Small Probes

Balloon probes|

* Vega 1
* 2

Failed launches|

* Tyazhely Sputnik
* Mariner 1
* 2MV-1 No.1
* 2MV-1 No.2
* 2MV-2 No.1
* Kosmos 21
* 3MV-1 No.2
* Kosmos 27
* 96
* 167
* 482

Planned missions|

| Flybys|

* Solar Orbiter (2020)
* Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (2022)
* Dragonfly (2026)

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Proposed missions|

| Venus missions|

* CUVE
* DAVINCI
* EnVision
* HAVOC
* HOVER
* Shukrayaan-1
* VAMP
* Venera-D
* VERITAS
* VICI
* VISAGE
* VISE
* VOX
* Zephyr

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Flybys|

* Europa Clipper
* Hayabusa2
* Mercury-P
* Laplace-P
* NASA Uranus orbiter and probe

Cancelled / concepts|

* European Venus Explorer
* Inspiration Mars
* TMK-Mavr
* Venus Orbiting Imaging Radar
* Vesta

Program overviews|

* Venera
* 3MV
* Mariner
* Pioneer Venus
* Vega

Related|

* Colonization
* Observations and explorations
* List of artificial objects on Venus
* List of missions
* Manned Venus flyby
* Terraforming
* VeSpR

* Missions are ordered by launch date. † indicates failure en route or before any data returned.

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