Spacecraft

Venera 7

Space Probe

Citation Formats

General Reference

Space and Astronomy Atlas. "Venera 7." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-space.interactiveatlas.org/spacecraft/venera-7.

APA Style

Space and Astronomy Atlas. (n.d.). Venera 7. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-space.interactiveatlas.org/spacecraft/venera-7

BibTeX

@misc{spaceandastronomyatlas-venera-7,
  author = {Space and Astronomy Atlas},
  title = {Venera 7},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-space.interactiveatlas.org/spacecraft/venera-7},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Venera 7 was a Soviet spacecraft, part of the Venera series of probes to Venus, built by the Lavochkin design bureau. When it landed on December 15, 1970, it became the first spacecraft to execute a successful soft landing on another planet and the first to transmit data from another planet's surface back to Earth.

Facts

Launch Date

1970-08-17 1

Cross-Tradition Connections

Operated By

Soviet space program

Venera 7's own infobox names Lavochkin, the Soviet design bureau that built the probe, as Operator; Lavochkin is not itself a modeled agency entity in this atlas (EntityRequest 622), so this edge targets the overarching Soviet space program, which the lead paragraph confirms as the mission's state origin.

Additional Source Wikipedia (space and spaceflight articles)Venera 7, lead section

Sources

1. Wikipedia (space and spaceflight articles)

Wikimedia FoundationVenera 7 article, lead section

Quote, Venera 7 article, lead section