Venera 4: mission and targets
Data as of 2026-10-04
Dates declared by the archive
- Project start
- June 12, 1967
- Declared end
- not declared
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 Soviet Venera 4 launched on 12 June 12 1967 with a carrier bus and lander probe to study Venus. The bus carried a magnetometer, cosmic ray detectors, particle detectors, and hydrogen and oxygen indicators. The lander had thermometers, barometer, radio altimeter, density gauge, gas analyzers, and radio transmitters. On 18 October it became the first probe to transmit data from another planet's atmosphere.
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.venera_4
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/