Vega 1 | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-06

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00:01:16 1 Venus mission
00:02:00 1.1 Descent craft
00:04:44 1.2 Balloon
00:07:48 2 Halley mission
00:11:27 3 See also



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Vega 1 (along with its twin Vega 2) is a Soviet space probe part of the Vega program. The spacecraft was a development of the earlier Venera craft. They were designed by Babakin Space Centre and constructed as 5VK by Lavochkin at Khimki. The name VeGa (ВеГа) combines the first two letters Russian words for Venus (Венера: "Venera") and Halley (Галлея: "Galleya").
The craft was powered by twin large solar panels and instruments included an antenna dish, cameras, spectrometer, infrared sounder, magnetometers (MISCHA), and plasma probes. The 4,920 kg craft was launched by a Proton 8K82K rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Tyuratam, Kazakh SSR.  Both Vega 1 and 2 were three-axis stabilized spacecraft.  The spacecraft were equipped with a dual bumper shield for dust protection from Halley's comet.