Venera 16 (4V-2 #2), the second of a twin Soviet Venus radar-mapping orbiter pair. A Proton-K/D-1 from Baikonur sent the ~5-tonne spacecraft to Venus, where side-looking SAR mapped the northern hemisphere down to about 30°N alongside Venera 15.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Venus
- Payload to orbit
- 5.4 T
- Flight
- 9th
- of 12 Proton-K/D-1 flights
- Date and time
- 7 June 1983, 02:32 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K/D-1
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/40, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Robotic Exploration
- International designator
- 1983-054
- Launches in 1983
- 55th of 129
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