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==The Vega spacecraft==
[[File:Vega model - Udvar-Hazy Center.JPG|thumb|A ''Vega'' probe bus on display at the [[National Air and Space Museum]]]]
''[[Vega 1]]'' and ''[[Vega 2]]'' were identical sister ships developed from the earlier ''[[Venera]]'' craft. They were of the [[5VK]] type, designed by [[Babakin Space Centre|Babakin Space Center]] and constructed by [[Lavochkin]] at [[Khimki]]. The craft were powered by twin large solar panels and instruments included an antenna dish, cameras, [[spectrometer]], infrared sounder, [[magnetometer]]s (MISCHA), and plasma probes. The {{cvt|4,920|kg}} craft were launched by a [[Proton-K|Proton 8K82K rocket]] from [[Baikonur Cosmodrome]], [[Tyuratam]], [[Kazakh SSR]] (current [[Kazakhstan]]). Both ''Vega 1'' and ''Vega 2'' were three-axis stabilized spacecraft. The spacecraft were equipped with a dual bumper shield for dust protection from Halley's comet.

===Bus Instruments===
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* imaging system
* infrared spectrometer
* [[ultraviolet]], [[light|visible]], infrared imaging [[spectrometer]]
* shield penetration detector
* dust detectors
* dust mass spectrometer
* neutral gas mass spectrometer
* APV-V plasma energy analyzer
* energetic-particle analyzer
* [[magnetometer]]
* wave and plasma analyzers
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