1986–2000: Stations, Global Partnerships and Flagship Observatories
Magellan
Mapped most of Venus with radar.
Era 3 of 6 · full record in the catalog
- Launch
- 4 May 1989
- Lead / partner
- United States
- Target
- Venus
- Category
- Planetary orbiter
- Status
- Success
- Vehicle
- unknown
- Mass
- unknown
- Orbit / trajectory
- unknown
Why it happened
Magellan flew during 1986–2000: Stations, Global Partnerships and Flagship Observatories, as part of United States's work toward venus. A sourced write-up of the context around this mission is still on the editorial queue; nothing here is invented to fill the gap.
The mission
The full narrative of this mission is pending research and writing. What is recorded so far: Mapped most of Venus with radar.
Results
Mapped most of Venus with radar.
Related missions
Sources & image credits
- Image credit: NASA · license: public-domain (source, checked 2026-08-22)
- Mission record: AntarikshPedia canonical dataset (data-sources/missions_timeline.md)
- Specifications reference: NASA NSSDCA Master Catalog