Venera 14: mission and targets

Project start

November 4, 1981

Declared end

April 9, 1983

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.

Targets you can open in 3D:

• Venus

A declared target is what the archive files the mission’s data under, not a record of observation.

The Soviet Venera 14 mission and its twin Venera 13 formed a pair of identical spacecraft, each comprising of a flyby carrier bus and a descent craft (lander probe), built to take advantage of the 1981 Venus launch opportunity. Launched five days apart, the objective of the missions was to make in-situ studies of the Venus atmosphere and surface.

Quoted in English, as the archive publishes it, read on October 4, 2026.

• SOLAR WIND (plasma stream)

Identifier in the archive, which is its citation: urn:nasa:pds:context:investigation:mission.venera_14

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/

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