Russia Plans "long-lived" Venus Probe |
Russia Plans "long-lived" Venus Probe |
Nov 7 2005, 07:19 PM
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Russia Plans "Long-Lived" Venus Probe The press secretary of the Russian Federal Space Agency, Vyacheslav Davidenko, has said that Russia will design and launch a long-living probe to Venus by 2015. The probe is known as Venera-D. Davidenko told a news briefing that within the federal Space budget for 2006-2015 was envisaged, “work to develop a principally new spacecraft, Venera D, intended for detailed studies of the atmosphere and surface of Venus”. “It is expected that the craft with a long, more than one month period of active existence will land on the surface of the planet that is the nearest to the earth. Nobody has done such thing on Venus so far.” Source: ITAR-TASS -------------------- "Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-boggingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the street to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space."
The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams 1952 - 2001 |
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Nov 9 2005, 09:15 AM
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A windmill may make sense for the VGA because that probe is supposed to rise and fall REPEATEDLY over a months-long lifetime. As for solar cells on the surface of Venus, the official design I've seen for the VGA on JPL's website portrays them -- and actually, since Venus' cloud layer reflects back only about 80% of the sunlight hitting it, which is over twice as intense as that on Earth, quite a bit of sunlight reaches Venus' surface. (Of course, the VGA is supposed to spend most of its time floating around in the cloud layer, where the light level is higher than at the surface.)
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