\<COLOUR 1> INTO ORBIT: \<COLOUR 0> August 10, 1990
\<COLOUR 1> COUNTRY: \<COLOUR 0> USA
\<COLOUR 1> COMMENTS: \<COLOUR 0> Launched by IUS (inertial upper stage on shuttle mission STS-30, Magellan carries out high-resolution synthetic-aperture radar mapping of Venus from orbit.