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=== 1982–1999 === {{sticky header}} {| class="wikitable sticky-header" style="font-size:95%;" |- ! colspan="2" style="text-align:left; width:15%;"| Spacecraft ! style="text-align:left; width:11%;"| Organization ! style="text-align:left; width:17%;"| Date ! style="text-align:left; width:10%;"| Type ! style="text-align:left; width:10%;"| Status ! style="text-align:left; width:24%;"| Notes ! style="text-align:left; width:7%;"| Image ! style="text-align:left; width:6%;"| Ref |- style="background:#EFE7B8" | colspan="2" | ''[[Venera 13]]'' | {{flagicon|USSR}} [[Russian Academy of Sciences|SAS]] | | | | | | |- style="background:#EFE7B8" | rowspan="2" | | bus | | 1 March 1982 | flyby | success | deployed lander and then acted as communications relay | rowspan=2 | [[File:1982_CPA_5278.jpg|50px]] | {{COSPAR|1981-106A}} |- style="background:#EFE7B8" | descent craft | | 1 March 1982 | lander | success | survived on surface for 127 minutes | {{COSPAR|1981-106D}} |- style="background:#EFE7B8" | colspan="2" | ''[[Venera 14]]'' | {{flagicon|USSR}} [[Russian Academy of Sciences|SAS]] | | | |identical to Venera 13 | | |- style="background:#EFE7B8" | rowspan="2" | | bus | | 5 March 1982 | flyby | success | deployed lander and then acted as communications relay | rowspan=2 | [[File:1982_CPA_5278.jpg|50px]] | {{COSPAR|1981-110A}} |- style="background:#EFE7B8" | descent craft | | 5 March 1982 | lander | success | survived on surface for 57 minutes | {{COSPAR|1981-110D}} |- style="background:#EFE7B8" | colspan="2" | ''[[Venera 15]]'' | {{flagicon|USSR}} [[Russian Academy of Sciences|SAS]] | 1983–1984 | orbiter | success | radar mapping | | {{COSPAR|1983-053A}} |- style="background:#EFE7B8" | colspan="2" | ''[[Venera 16]]'' | {{flagicon|USSR}} [[Russian Academy of Sciences|SAS]] | 1983–1984 | orbiter | success | radar mapping; identical to Venera 15 | | {{COSPAR|1983-054A}} |- style="background:#EFE7B8" | colspan="2" rowspan="3" | ''[[Vega 1]]'' | rowspan="3" | {{flagicon|USSR}} [[Russian Academy of Sciences|SAS]] | rowspan="3" | 11 June 1985 | flyby | success | went on to fly by Halley's comet | rowspan=2 | [[File:Vega_model_-_Udvar-Hazy_Center.JPG|50px]] | {{COSPAR|1984-125A}} |- style="background:#F2F2F2" | lander | failure | instruments deployed prematurely | {{COSPAR|1984-125E}} |- style="background:#EFE7B8" | atmospheric balloon | success | floated at an altitude of about 54 km and transmitted for around 46 hours | [[File:Russian_%22Vega%22_balloon_mission_to_Venus_on_display_at_the_Udvar-Hazy_museum.jpg|50px]] | {{COSPAR|1984-125F}} |- style="background:#EFE7B8" | colspan="2" rowspan="3" | ''[[Vega 2]]'' | rowspan="3" | {{flagicon|USSR}} [[Russian Academy of Sciences|SAS]] | rowspan="3" | 15 June 1985 | flyby | success | went on to fly by Halley's comet | rowspan=2 | [[File:Vega_model_-_Udvar-Hazy_Center.JPG|50px]] | {{COSPAR|1984-128A}} |- style="background:#EFE7B8" | lander | success | transmitted from surface for 56 minutes | {{COSPAR|1984-128E}} |- style="background:#EFE7B8" | atmospheric balloon | success | floated at an altitude of about 54 km and transmitted for around 46 hours | [[File:Russian_%22Vega%22_balloon_mission_to_Venus_on_display_at_the_Udvar-Hazy_museum.jpg|50px]] | {{COSPAR|1984-128F}} |- style="background:#EFE7B8" | colspan="2" | ''[[Galileo (spacecraft)|Galileo]]'' | {{flagicon|USA}} [[NASA]] | 10 February 1990 | flyby | success | gravity assist en route to Jupiter; minimum distance 16,000 km | [[File:Galileo Preparations - GPN-2000-000672.jpg|50px]] | {{COSPAR|1989-084B}}<ref name="galileo-legacy">{{cite web |url=http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/mission/journey-cruise.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010419124617/http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/mission/journey-cruise.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=19 April 2001 |title=Solar System Exploration: : Galileo Legacy Site |author=Jet Propulsion Laboratory |publisher=[[NASA]] |access-date=30 November 2012|author-link=Jet Propulsion Laboratory }}</ref> |- style="background:#EFE7B8" | colspan="2" | ''[[Magellan probe|Magellan]]'' | {{flagicon|USA}} [[NASA]] | 10 August 1990 –<br/>12 October 1994 | orbiter | success | global radar mapping | [[File:Magellan at Kennedy Space Center.jpg|50px]] | {{COSPAR|1989-033B}} <ref>{{cite web |url=http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/magellan.html |title=Magellan Mission to Venus |author=NSSDC |publisher=[[NASA]] |access-date=30 November 2012|author-link=NSSDC }}</ref> |- style="background:#EFE7B8" | colspan="2" rowspan="2" | ''[[Cassini–Huygens|Cassini]]'' | rowspan="2" | {{flagicon|USA}} [[NASA]]/<br /> {{flagicon|EUR}} [[European Space Agency|ESA]]/<br />{{flagicon|ITA}} [[Italian Space Agency|ASI]] | 26 April 1998 | rowspan="2" | flyby | rowspan="2" | success | rowspan="2" | gravity assist en route to Saturn | rowspan="2" | [[File:Cassini assembly.jpg|50px]] | rowspan="2" | {{COSPAR|1997-061A}} <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1997-061A|title=NASA - NSSDCA - Spacecraft - Details}}</ref> |- style="background:#EFE7B8" | 24 June 1999 |}
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