'Venus 7') was a Soviet spacecraft, part of the Venera series of probes to Venus. When it landed on the Venusian surface on 15 December 1970, it became the first spacecraft to soft land on another planet and the first to transmit data from there back to Earth .

Model of Venera 7 lander in the Cosmos Pavilion, VDNKh. The Venera 7 probe, launched in August 1970, was the first one designed to survive Venus's surface conditions and to make a soft landing. Massively overbuilt to ensure survival, it had few experiments on board, and scientific output from the mission was further limited due to an internal ...

Aug 17, 2015 · Venera 7 was one in a series of Soviet missions to Venus to explore the surface of the hot, hellish and cloud-covered world. The spacecraft consisted of a spherical landing probe and a spacecraft...

May 1, 2015 · Venera 7 was the first spacecraft to return data after landing on another planet. The spacecraft was very similar in design to Venera 5 and 6, with a bus holding a spherical lander probe.

Dec 15, 2020 · Apparently the Venera 7 lander had bounced upon impact and settled on the Venusian surface with a tilt of about 50°. Instead of being almost directly above the lander, the Earth was now in one of the sidelobes of its antenna resulting in the signal having just 1% of its expected strength.

Dec 14, 2022 · On December 15, 1970, the Soviet Union’s Venera 7 spacecraft landed on Venus’ surface and became the first spacecraft to perform a soft landing on another planet.

In December 1970, the spacecraft, announced by the USSR as Venera-7, approached Venus after a rather uneventful flight. On December 15, the Venera-7 lander separated from its cruise stage and plunged into the planet's atmosphere on the …

Oct 4, 2019 · Venera 7 was constructed as a single spherical shell using titanium and lined with shock-absorbing materials. This, the Soviets hoped, would enable the lander to survive the landing and...

Apr 28, 2019 · The Soviet Union’s Venera program was a 16-mission program of interplanetary probes, and planetary landers, launched between 1961 and 1984 during the Space Race. The probes were launched in pairs, three days apart, as insurance against launch failures.

On December 1970, the Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 became the first human object to land on another planet. After the Mariner 2 was the first to fly by Venus, the Soviets became the first to put a lander on the surface, 8 years later. The Venera 7 started it's descent to the surface.