Vega Mission - Vega 1: mission and targets
Data as of 2026-10-04
Dates declared by the archive
- Project start
- December 15, 1984
- Declared end
- April 1, 1986
The start the archive declares is the start of the project, not the launch, and an end it does not declare does not mean the mission is still running.
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A declared target is what the archive files the mission’s data under, not a record of observation.
Description published by the archive
The Vega program lead by the Soviet Union and including a number of European partners, was designed to investigate Venus and then to flyby Comet 1P/Halley. The name "VeGa" is a combination of the first two (Russian) letters of "Venus" and "Halley". It included twin spacecraft designated "Vega 1" and "Vega 2". The Vega 1 spacecraft Launched on 15 December 1984, delivered a balloon into the Venusian atmosphere on 11 June 1985, and encountered Comet Halley on 6 March 1986.
Quoted in English, as the archive publishes it, read on October 4, 2026.
Other targets declared
- SOLAR WIND (plasma stream)
Source
Identifier in the archive, which is its citation: urn:nasa:pds:context:investigation:mission.vega_1
NASA Planetary Data System, PDS Registry, investigation context products. Dates and targets read on September 29, 2026; how to cite the archive: https://pds.nasa.gov/datastandards/citing/