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.
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Status (category)Mission Complete / Ended 1 Connections
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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
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1. Venera 7 (Wikipedia)
- it became the first spacecraft to execute a successful soft landing on another planet and the first to transmit data from there back to Earth
- In Group: Venus Probes, Venera 7 (Russian: ??????-7, lit.?'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
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Wikimedia FoundationVenera 7 article, lead section
the first spacecraft to execute a successful soft landing on another planet
- Venera 7 article, infobox
Operated By: Soviet space program, Venera 7, lead section
Venera 7 ... was a Soviet spacecraft, part of the Venera series of probes to Venus.
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