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Pioneer Venus Multiprobe
Launch SuccessfulLaunch Details
Date: 8 Aug 1978, 07:33 am UTC
Rocket: Atlas SLV-3D Centaur (Atlas)
Provider: United States Air Force
Mission
Type: Robotic Exploration
Orbit: Venus flyby
Pad: Launch Complex 36A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Mission Description
Bus carrying one large and three small atmospheric probes which landed on Venus