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Space programs and missions · A guided course
Balloons in the clouds, spacecraft at a comet and a worldwide observing team
Explore the Soviet-led international Vega program through its divided spacecraft, Venus balloon measurements, difficult radio data and cooperation with Giotto at Halley’s Comet.
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APK’s 2025 photograph of the Vega engineering models at the Udvar-Hazy Center. The Vega assembly is at the back left; the foreground Mars exhibit is a different spacecraft. Full frame retained; display copy resized and compressed.
APK · Image source · CC BY 4.0Your place in the bigger picture
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Learning to measure a world that defeats familiar assumptions
From an antenna beam to a usable message
The Vega Venus–Halley program
Balloons in the clouds, spacecraft at a comet and a worldwide observing team
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