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
- 4
- First launch
- Latest launch
- Concluded missions
- 4
- Recorded a success
- 4
- Success rate
- 100%
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. 0 of the 4 records are still active, leaving 4 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 |
|---|---|
| 1970s | |
| 1980s | |
| 1990s | |
| 2000s |
Who went
Agencies
A joint mission is counted under every agency its record lists, so these figures need not add up to 4.
What they did
Mission types
- Orbiter
- 3
- Atmospheric probe
- 2
- Flyby
- 2
- Lander
- 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
- 4
- Partial success
- 0
- Failure
- 0
- Active
- 0
Keep going
These records in the directory
The directory's Venus destination filter selects exactly the records counted above.
View all 4 Venus missions