The head of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Sridhara Paniker Somnath, said that his agency plans to launch an automatic research station to Venus in 2024, when the position of Venus relative to the Earth will be most favorable for such a flight.
“India can prepare and launch a mission to Venus in a very short time, because India has the potential for this”Somnath said.
The launch of the mission is scheduled for December 2024, and the launch of the station into Venusian orbit next year, when the Earth and Venus are close to each other, which will allow reaching Venus with minimal fuel consumption. The launch window is quite narrow: if it fails to launch the device in 2024, then the next convenient launch window will not be until seven years later – in 2031.
The head of ISRO noted that the department already has plans for what kind of research the Indian spacecraft will conduct. The station will study processes on the surface of Venus, conduct shallow subsurface stratigraphy, analyze the structure and dynamics of the atmosphere, and study the interaction of the solar wind with the Venusian ionosphere.
It should be noted that India has considerable experience in preparing automatic missions to other celestial bodies in the solar system. The first Indian lunar automatic station “Chandrayan-1” was launched into the lunar orbit in November 2008. The device worked until August 2009. The Indian Mars station Mangalyaan-1 was launched into Mars orbit in September 2014. India then became the first country in the world to succeed in delivering a device to the orbit of Mars on the first attempt, and the first Asian country to succeed at all. Over the past years, the station sent thousands of photographs of the planet with a total volume of 2 TB to the earth, and also took pictures of the satellites of Mars – Phobos and Deimos.
By the way, it is the Indian company that will launch some of the OneWeb satellites into orbit instead of Roskosmos (in early March of this year, Dmitry Rogozin instructed to stop all launches of Russian missiles in the interests of the British OneWeb). Elon Musk’s SpaceX will put the rest of the satellites into orbit.
Source: ixbt
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