Pioneer Venus Multiprobe (Pioneer 13), NASA Venus atmospheric-entry mission carrying one large and three small probes plus the bus. Atlas-Centaur from Cape Canaveral LC-36A; all four probes entered Venus atmosphere on 9 Dec 1978, with the Day Probe transmitting ~67 minutes after surface impact.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Venus flyby
- Payload to orbit
- 875 kg
- Flight
- 19th
- of 32 Atlas SLV-3D Centaur flights
- Date and time
- 8 August 1978, 07:33 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas SLV-3D Centaur
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Robotic Exploration
- International designator
- 1978-078
- Launches in 1978
- 80th of 128
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