Venus Data

The following page contains data sets and tools related to Venus missions. The IPDA maintains a glossary of agency acronyms. Links will open in a new tab.

Venus Missions

Mission Name	Agency	Coverage Period	Location of Information or Data
Venera 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, and 16	Soviet Union	1961 – 1983 (not officially archived in the PDS)	NASA/NSSDCA NASA PDS/GEO NASA PDS/PPI
Pioneer Venus Orbiter	NASA	November 1978 – October 1992	NASA/NSSDCA NASA PDS/ATM NASA PDS/PPI AMDA/CDPP
Magellan	NASA	August 1990 – September 1992	NASA PDS/GEO NASA PDS/ATM NASA PDS/IMG
Venus Express	ESA	April 2006 – January 2015	ESA/PSA ESA/PSA CNES/CDPP AMDA/CDPP NASA PDS/PPI
VeGa	USSR	June 11 and 15, 1985	NASA PDS/ATM
Akatsuki-Venus Climate Orbiter	JAXA, NASA PDS/ATM	December 2015 – ongoing	JAXA NASA PDS/ATM
DAVINCI+	NASA	post 2028	NASA
VERITAS	NASA	delayed	NASA
EnVision	ESA	2031	ESA

Non-Venus Missions with Venus Data

Mission Name	Agency	Time of Flybys	Location of Information or Data
Mariner 10	NASA	February 5, 1974	NASA/NSSDCA NASA PDS/ATM
Galileo	NASA	February 9, 1990	NASA PDS/ATM NASA PDS/PPI
Cassini	NASA	April 26, 1998 and June 24, 1999	NASA PDS/ATM NASA PDS/PPI GSFC/CDAWeb CNES/CDPP
Messenger	NASA	October 24, 2006 and June 14, 2007	NASA PDS/GEO NASA PDS/IMG NASA PDS/PPI
Rosetta	ESA PSA	September 6, 2004 – October 16, 2004	ESA/PSA NASA PDS/SBN
Parker Solar Probe	NASA	October 3, 2018, December 26, 2019, July 11, 2020, February 20, 2021, October 16, 2021, August 21, 2023, November 6, 2024	NASA/GSFC
BepiColombo	ESA (MPO) JAXA (MMO)	October 15, 2020 and August 10, 2021	ESA/PSA JAXA ESA/PSA
UAE Asteroid Mission	UAE	2029	UAE

Additional Venus Data Sets and Tools

Product Name	Agency	Coverage Period	Location of Information or Data
Pre-Magellan CD-ROM	NASA	1968-1990	NASA PDS/GEO
Arecibo/Green Bank Radar Observations	NASA	1988-2020	NASA PDS/GEO
Venus Orbital Data Explorer (ODE)	NASA		NASA PDS/GEO
Map-A-Planet	USGS		USGS
Venus Trek	NASA		NASA/JPL
Navigation and Related Observation Geometry	NASA		NASA PDS/NAIF