Vega 1, the first Soviet Venus–Halley dual-mission probe, launched on a Proton-K/D-1 from Baikonur. It released a lander and balloon into Venus’s atmosphere before a high-speed flyby of Comet Halley in March 1986.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Venus flyby
- Payload to orbit
- 6.8 T
- Flight
- 10th
- of 12 Proton-K/D-1 flights
- Date and time
- 15 December 1984, 09:16 UTC
- Rocket
- Proton-K/D-1
- Builder
- Khrunichev
- Launch site
- 200/39 (200L), Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Robotic Exploration
- International designator
- 1984-125
- Launches in 1984
- 125th of 129
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