Vega 1 and 2 was vessels sisters Soviet S developed starting from the program Venera. The mission included/understood the sending of an undercarriage and a balloon on Venus and the study of the Halley's Comet. Vega 2 approached comet to 8030 km and transmitted much better images than the probe Vega 1.

Vega 1 and 2 are currently in heliocentric Orbite.

The probe Vega 1 of 4.920 kg was launched by a rocket Proton since the Cosmodrome de Baïkonour.

See too

• Programme Venerated
• Programme Vega

External bonds

• Vega mission images from the Space Research Institute (IKI)
• Raw dated from Vega 1 and Vega 2 one board instruments
• Soviet Exploration off Come