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The final missions in the Soviet Venera series were launched in June 1983. Having achieved most of their objectives with the Venera landers, these two spacecraft were outfitted with large radar antennas replacing the entry system and sent to Venus as orbital radar mappers.
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Huntress, W.T., Marov, M.Y. (2011). And back to Venus yet again. In: Soviet Robots in the Solar System. Springer Praxis Books(), vol 1. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7898-1_17
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