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Pioneer Venus Orbiter

(PVO, Pioneer 12, Pioneer Venus 1)
(NASA Venus probe launched 1978)

Pioneer Venus Orbiter (PVO, Pioneer 12, or Pioneer Venus 1) was a NASA space probe launched in 1978 for Venus, operated until 1992 when it ran out of propellant and eventually burned in Venus's atmosphere. In 1986, the PVO observed Comet Halley. Instruments:

(spacecraft,Venus,NASA)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_Venus_Orbiter
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/pioneer-venus-1/
https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/ames/40-years-ago-pioneers-encounter-venus/
https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/heasarc/missions/pvo.html
https://history.arc.nasa.gov/hist_pdfs/nasa_sp461.pdf
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1977SSRv...20..283C/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1977SSRv...20..451./abstract
https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/pioneer-12.htm
https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/pioneer_venus.html
https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1978-051A
https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/displayExperiment.action?spacecraftId=1978-051A
https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/displayDataset.action?spacecraftId=1978-051A

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