High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Venera 14 (Russian: -14) was a probe in the Soviet Venera program for the exploration of Venus. Venera 14 was identical to the Venera 13 spacecraft and built to take advantage of the 1981 Venus launch opportunity and launched 5 days apart. It was launched on 1981-11-04 at 05:31:00 UTC and Venera 13 on 1981-10-30 at 06:04:00 UTC, both with an on-orbit dry mass of 760 kg.