Venera 15 (4V-2 #1), the first of a twin Soviet Venus radar-mapping orbiter pair. Launched on Proton-K/D-1 from Baikonur, it entered a nearly polar Venus orbit in October 1983 and used 8 cm band synthetic-aperture radar to map northern latitudes.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Venus
- Payload to orbit
- 5.4 T
- Flight
- 8th
- of 12 Proton-K/D-1 flights
- Date and time
- 2 June 1983, 02:38 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K/D-1
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/39 (200L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Robotic Exploration
- International designator
- 1983-053
- Launches in 1983
- 54th of 129
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