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Venera (Венера)
Venera, or Венера, was a Soviet program of robotic spacecraft sent to Venus between 1961 and 1983, achieving the first soft landing and surface photographs from another planet.
Venera 10
Venera 10 was a Soviet spacecraft that placed an orbiter around Venus and landed a probe on 25 October 1975, transmitting for a record 65 minutes.
Venera 13
Venera 13 was a Soviet spacecraft that landed on Venus on 1 March 1982, survived 127 minutes, and returned the first color images of the surface.
Venera 15
Venera 15 was a Soviet Venus orbiter launched in 1983 that, with its twin Venera 16, used radar to map northern Venus at 1 to 2 kilometer resolution.
Venera 4
Venera 4 (Венера-4) was a Soviet planetary probe launched in June 1967 whose descent capsule became the first mission to transmit data from the atmosphere of Venus.
Venera 9
Venera 9 (Венера-9) was a 1975 Soviet Venus mission whose orbiter was the first to orbit Venus and whose lander sent the first photos from another planet's surface.
Venus Express
Venus Express was the European Space Agency's first orbiter mission to Venus, launched in 2005 and studying the Venusian atmosphere from orbit from 2006 to 2014.
Venus Life Finder
Venus Life Finder (VLF) is a series of MIT-led astrobiology mission concepts, developed with Rocket Lab, designed to probe the Venus clouds for habitability and signs of life.
VERITAS (spacecraft)
VERITAS (Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSAR, Topography, and Spectroscopy) is a NASA Discovery mission to orbit Venus and map its surface topography, rocks, and geological activity.
Véronique (rocket)
Véronique was a family of French liquid-fueled sounding rockets developed from 1949 at the LRBA in Vernon, flying from Hammaguir and Kourou from 1952 to 1974.
Very-small-aperture terminal
A very-small-aperture terminal (VSAT) is a small satellite earth station with an antenna of a few meters or less, part of a network serving many similar terminals.
Viasat
Viasat is an American communications company headquartered in Carlsbad, California, providing satellite broadband, in-flight connectivity, maritime services, and secure government communications. It acquired the British satellite operator Inmarsat in 2023.
Victor J. Glover
Victor J. Glover is an American NASA astronaut and retired Navy captain who piloted SpaceX Crew-1 in 2020 and Artemis II, the 2026 mission that flew humans around the Moon.
Vikas (rocket engine)
Vikas is a liquid-propellant rocket engine developed by India's ISRO from the French Viking engine, powering the liquid stages of the PSLV, GSLV, and LVM3 launch vehicles.
Viking (rocket engine)
The Viking was a family of French storable-propellant rocket engines that powered the first and second stages of the Ariane 1 through Ariane 4 launchers from 1979 to 2003.
Viking 1
Viking 1 was a NASA Mars mission whose lander achieved the first fully successful landing on Mars on July 20, 1976, sending back the first photographs from the surface.
Viking 2
Viking 2 was a NASA Mars mission with an orbiter and lander, launched in 1975, that landed at Utopia Planitia on September 3, 1976 and operated until 1980.
Viking program
The Viking program was a NASA project that sent two orbiter-lander spacecraft to Mars in 1975 and 1976, achieving the first successful American landings and conducting the first direct experiments there to search for life.
Vikram Sarabhai (વિક્રમ અંબાલાલ સારાભાઇ)
Vikram Sarabhai, full name Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai, was an Indian physicist and cosmic-ray scientist who founded India's space program, established ISRO in 1969, and chaired the Atomic Energy Commission from 1966 to 1971.
Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre
Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (विक्रम साराभाई अंतरिक्ष केंद्र; VSSC) is the lead center of the Indian Space Research Organisation for launch vehicle technology, located at Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, formed in 1972.
Vinci (rocket engine)
Vinci is a European re-ignitable cryogenic rocket engine, developed by Safran under ESA and CNES contracts, that powers the upper stage of the Ariane 6 launcher with 180 kN of thrust.
Virgin Galactic
Virgin Galactic is an American commercial spaceflight company founded by Richard Branson, flying paying passengers and research payloads on suborbital air-launched rocket planes from Spaceport America, New Mexico.
VIRTIS
VIRTIS (Visible and InfraRed Thermal Imaging Spectrometer) is an imaging spectrometer on ESA's Rosetta orbiter that mapped the surface composition and coma gases of comet 67P; copies flew on Venus Express and Dawn.
Virtual Reality Laboratory (NASA)
The Virtual Reality Laboratory is a NASA astronaut training facility at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, providing immersive virtual reality training for spacewalks and robotic operations.
Visiting vehicles of the International Space Station
The visiting vehicles of the International Space Station are the crew and cargo spacecraft from NASA, Roscosmos, JAXA, SpaceX, Northrop Grumman, and Boeing that dock or berth there.
Vladimir Dzhanibekov
Vladimir Dzhanibekov, born Vladimir Krysin in 1942, is a retired Soviet cosmonaut who commanded five missions and led the 1985 rescue of the dead Salyut 7 station.
Vladimir Komarov (Владимир Михайлович Комаров)
Vladimir Komarov (Владимир Комаров) was a Soviet cosmonaut who commanded Voskhod 1, the first multi-person spaceflight, and died in the 1967 Soyuz 1 landing accident.
Voskhod (rocket)
Voskhod ("sunrise"), designated 11A57, was a Soviet three-stage rocket built by Korolev's OKB-1 on the R-7; it launched the 1964–1965 Voskhod spacecraft, including the first spacewalk, and Zenit satellites.
Voskhod (spacecraft)
Voskhod, Russian for "Rise," was a Soviet crewed spacecraft, a modified Vostok capsule that carried the first multi-crew mission and first spacewalk in 1964 and 1965.
Vostochny Cosmodrome
Vostochny Cosmodrome is a Russian space launch facility in the Amur region of the far east, near the Chinese border, which hosted its first launch in 2016.