Destination · Planet
Venus
Every figure on this page is counted from the committed mission records that name Venus as a destination. None of them is maintained by hand.
Ephemeris committed
Body record
What the catalog records about Venus
- Body type
- Planet
- Orbits
- Sun
- Mean radius
- 6,052 km
- Mean distance from the Sun
- 108,000,000 km
- Position in the explorer
- Computed from a committed ephemeris
Fields this body’s record does not carry are left out entirely rather than filled in with a placeholder or a zero.
Derived figures
Missions to Venus
- Committed missions
- 47
- First launch
- Latest launch
- Concluded missions
- 43
- Recorded a success
- 23
- Success rate
- 53%
Active missions are excluded from the success rate: a live mission has no outcome yet, so counting it would report a rate the records do not support. 4 of the 47 records are still active, leaving 43 concluded. A partial success is a distinct recorded outcome, so it is not counted in the numerator, but it stays in the denominator.
| Decade | Missions launched |
|---|---|
| 1960s | |
| 1970s | |
| 1980s | |
| 1990s | |
| 2000s | |
| 2010s | |
| 2020s |
Who went
Agencies
A joint mission is counted under every agency its record lists, so these figures need not add up to 47.
What they did
Mission types
- Flyby
- 22
- Lander
- 20
- Orbiter
- 13
- Atmospheric probe
- 12
- Heliophysics
- 2
- Observatory
- 2
- Impactor
- 1
- Technology demonstrator
- 1
A mission can carry several types, so these figures need not add up either. Types no mission here carries are omitted.
How they ended
Outcomes
- Success
- 23
- Partial success
- 5
- Failure
- 15
- Active
- 4
Which ones
Every committed mission to Venus
Every record counted above, in launch order — earliest first, with missions that share a launch date ordered by name.
- Sputnik 7
- Venera 1
- Mariner 1
- Sputnik 19
- Mariner 2
- Sputnik 20
- Sputnik 21
- Cosmos 21
- Venera 1964A
- Cosmos 27
- Zond 1
- Venera 2
- Venera 3
- Cosmos 96
- Venera 1965A
- Venera 4
- Mariner 5
- Cosmos 167
- Venera 5
- Venera 6
- Venera 7
- Cosmos 359
- Venera 8
- Cosmos 482
- Mariner 10
- Venera 9
- Venera 10
- Pioneer Venus 1
- Pioneer Venus 2
- Venera 11
- Venera 12
- Venera 13
- Venera 14
- Venera 15
- Venera 16
- Vega 1
- Vega 2
- Magellan
- Galileo
- Cassini-Huygens
- MESSENGER
- Venus Express
- Akatsuki
- Parker Solar Probe
- BepiColombo
- Solar Orbiter
- Juice
Keep going
These records in the directory
The directory's Venus destination filter selects exactly the records counted above.
View all 47 Venus missionsThe explorer draws a flight path only where a trajectory dataset is committed.
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