Russia Plans "long-lived" Venus Probe |
Russia Plans "long-lived" Venus Probe |
Nov 7 2005, 07:19 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 12 Joined: 6-November 05 From: Bexleyheath, Kent, United Kingdom Member No.: 545 |
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 10 2005, 12:54 PM
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There will be some big news shortly on that subject, which I'll be able to break in my "Astronomy" article if the MEPAG committee doesn't beat me to it.
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Nov 10 2005, 05:01 PM
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Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Admin Posts: 4404 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 |
I wish that Russia would send another Venera lander on the level of the old ones, as it could probably be done provided it was funded relatively quickly. There have been changes noted in the Venusian atmosphere since the late 1970s. It would shed light on possible activity.
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Nov 10 2005, 05:11 PM
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QUOTE (tedstryk @ Nov 10 2005, 12:01 PM) I wish that Russia would send another Venera lander on the level of the old ones, as it could probably be done provided it was funded relatively quickly. There have been changes noted in the Venusian atmosphere since the late 1970s. It would shed light on possible activity. In an issue of Omni magazine circa 1991, there was an article describing how the Russians had two complete, working Venera landers ready to go and for sale at a mere $2 million US. Apparently no one took them up on the offer. Anyone know what became of those Veneras? If they are still in good shape, take them out of mothballs and aim them at Venus. I would rather look at full scale replicas in museums, knowing that the real probes were out there exploring strange new worlds. -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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