Shukrayaan-I: ISRO planning mission to Venus, eyeing December 2024 launch window
After sending the mission to the Moon and Mars, Isro is now preparing a spacecraft to orbit Venus to learn what is below the hottest planet surface in the solar system and also reveals the mystery under the sulfuric acid clouds that surround it.
Overcoming daily meetings about Venus science, Chairperson Isro S Somnath said Venus’s mission had been conceived, project reports had been made and money had been identified, and urged scientists to focus on high impact results.”Building and placing the mission in Venus is possible for India in a very short time, because today’s ability exists with India,” Somnath said in his inauguration speech.
The Space Agency is targeting the window in December 2024 to be launched with orbital maneuvers planned for the following year when the earth and Venus will be so in harmony so that space aircraft can be inserted into a neighboring planet orbit using the minimum number of propellage. The next similar window will be available in 2031.
Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) Somnath warned of the recurring experiments carried out by the previous mission to Venus and focused on the unique results of high impacts as achieved by Chandrakan-I and the mission of the orbiter Mars.”The aim is to review that observations of unique additional knowledge can be done and see that we do not repeat what all has been done.
Among the planned experiments including investigations of surface process and shallow sub-surface stratigraphy, including active volcanic hotspots and lava flow, studying the structure, composition and dynamics of atmosphere and investigations of solar wind interactions with venous ionosphere.The main instrument on spacecraft will become a high -resolution synthetic synthetic aperture radar to check the surface of Venus, which is covered by solid clouds that make it impossible to see the surface of the planet.
“There is no previous observations from Venus’s sub-surface that has been done. Isro, said in his presentation at a virtual meeting.This mission will also bring instruments to Venus to check the atmosphere of the planet in infrared, ultraviolet and submillimeter wavelength, he said.
