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The Pioneer Venus Orbiter also known as Pioneer Venus 1 or Pioneer 12 was a mission to Venus conducted as part of the Pioneer program. Launched in May 1978 atop an Atlas-Centaur rocket the spacecraft was inserted into an elliptical orbit around Venus on December 4 1978. It returned data on Venus until October of 1992.

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