Abstract
The arrival of the Pioneer Venus spacecraft in December of 1978 marked the initiation of a new phase of planetary exploration. For the first time a mission had been designed to investigate the global scale properties of another planet's atmosphere. The four entry probes and their bus spacecraft were largely new innovations. The orbiter instruments drew heavily upon the successful Atmosphere Explorer satellites which had been used for studies of earth's atmosphere since 1973.
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