Magellan
NASA robotic space probe that studied the planet Venus
Also known as Venus Radar Mapper · VRM · Venus Orbiting Imaging Radar · VOIR · Magellan spacecraft · Magellan orbiter
- Instance of
Overview
All data
47 statements · 62% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Time of object orbit decay
- October 13, 1994 nature of statement: estimate
- Manufacturer
- Martin Marietta applies to part: spacecraft
- Hughes Aircraft Company applies to part: radar
- Mass
- 3,448.8 kg criterion used: launch weight
- 1,035 kg criterion used: dry weight
- Launch vehicle
- Space Shuttle vessel: Atlantis
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- Space Shuttle vessel: Atlantis
- Significant event
- atmospheric entry(October 13, 1994) location: Venus
- loss of signal(October 12, 1994) refine date: 10:02 · location: Venus
- orbit insertion(August 10, 1990) refine date: 17:00 · relative to: Venus
- deployment(May 5, 1989) refine date: 01:01:32
- rocket launch(May 4, 1989) location: Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B · refine date: 18:46:59 · part of: STS-30
- orbital activity(1990–1994) relative to: Venus
- Powered by
- spacecraft solar array quantity: 2 · nominal power output: 1,029 W
- Width
- 4.6 m applies to part: spacecraft
- 9.2 m together with: spacecraft solar array
- Space tug
- Inertial Upper Stage serial number: IUS-18
- Native label
- Magellan
On other databases
11 identifiers linking Magellan across the web's reference databases
- COSPAR ID1989-033B
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online IDtopic/Magellan
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026)2c1C5F
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021)506959
- Freebase ID/m/01m0jq
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia IDMagellan_-_romsonde
- KBpedia IDMagellan-TheSpacecraft
- NAIF ID-18
- NE.se IDmagellan
- NSSDCA ID1989-033B
- SCN19969