Indian Venus Missions

[haldilal]

https://www.hindustantimes.com/science/all-about-sukrayaan-1-isros-mission-to-venus-101695981482229.html

 

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[VictorDelta4]

View: https://x.com/ISROSpaceflight/status/1826260718787694882

 

[FalconSlayers]

View: https://x.com/debapratim_/status/1837353760546287790

View: https://x.com/TitaniumSV5/status/1837367990439780724

 

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[Blademaster]

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Now what is our (in)famous brown coolie Jay Barfart(whatever his name is) gonna say about that?

 

[haldilal]

 

[TopWatcher]

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Landing module should also be included as ISRO chairman talks about that.

 

[ArjunMK1A]

Landing module should also be included as ISRO chairman talks about that.

Only USSR achieved the distinction of landing a probe on Venus.

Venera - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

If we achieve the landing. Will be the greatest feat in history of Indian Space age.

 

[SlayingHell]

Only USSR achieved the distinction of landing a probe on Venus.

Venera - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

If we achieve the landing. Will be the greatest feat in history of Indian Space age.

Landing is just one part of the challenge. The real achievement would be capturing a photo or even a short video and successfully transmitting it back, which would make history. The Soviet Union’s greatest accomplishment with their Venus landing wasn’t just reaching the planet—it was the development of materials capable of withstanding its extreme conditions. To achieve something comparable, we need to start from the very basics, beginning with the design of circuits. These circuits must then be constructed using special materials, such as gold and other exotic metals, to ensure the durability of components like chips and recording instruments in harsh environments. If ISRO can master this level of engineering, it would be a feat on par with the Soviet Venus lander.

 

[Blademaster]

Only USSR achieved the distinction of landing an probe in Venus.

Venera - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

If we achieve the landing. Will be the greatest feat in history of Indian Space age.

We need to do a similar landing on one of the Jupiter's moons that is capable of supporting life.

 

[Indx TechStyle]

Only USSR achieved the distinction of landing a probe on Venus.

Venera - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

If we achieve the landing. Will be the greatest feat in history of Indian Space age.

Greatest feat of Indian space technology will be beyond Venus landing. Even beyond an Indian Space Station or a Manned moon landing.

We just have entered the big league in 2010.

 

[SlayingHell]

Greatest feet of Indian space technology will be beyond Venus landing. Even beyond an Indian Space Station or a Manned moon landing.

We just have entered the big league in 2010.

i don't understand.

 

[Indx TechStyle]

i don't understand.

That's good.

 

[SlayingHell]

That's good.

what's entering into big league in 2010 means?

 

[Indx TechStyle]

what's entering into big league in 2010 means?

GSLV
Cryogenic
Full launch capability

 

[angryindian]

Greatest feat of Indian space technology will be beyond Venus landing. Even beyond an Indian Space Station or a Manned moon landing.

We just have entered the big league in 2010.

Venus is the hardest rocky planet to land on. Its 400°C temperature, sulfuric acid-rich corrosive, and thick atmosphere make it much harder to land on than Mars. If we ace it, Mars will be a cakewalk.

 

[Blademaster]

Venus is the hardest rocky planet to land on. Its 400°C temperature, sulfuric acid-rich corrosive, and thick atmosphere make it much harder to land on than Mars. If we ace it, Mars will be a cakewalk.

Not really. Mars has no atmosphere and still have enough mass to generate gravity to smash things if they cannot brake properly.

Right now NASA has a hard time of how to land bigger vehicles as they are approaching their upper limit of size given their technological advances.

There’s no fucking way that Musk’ starship can land on mars given that size. He would have to carry all that fuel in a second ship to Mars and drain that fuel from the second ship, abandon the second ship in orbit and then land the first starship on Mars where it’s permanently stranded after expending all that fuel slowing itself down and landing itself. It would literally take a decade to make all that fuel to launch itself. Which begs its own question - where is Musk gonna get that necessary power and machinery to produce methane fuel on Mars? He would have to keep landing like 20 starships and abandon 20 starships in Mars orbit to be able to send one starship back to Earth.

 

[Indx TechStyle]

Venus is the hardest rocky planet to land on. Its 400°C temperature, sulfuric acid-rich corrosive, and thick atmosphere make it much harder to land on than Mars. If we ace it, Mars will be a cakewalk.

On topic, Venus is hardest rocket planet in reach where some country has reached.
There are harder things to do around satellites of Jupiter and Uranus where no one has gone or even deeper space around Neptune and Pluto.

We anyway are not talking about. Maintaining a space station is technologicall & financially harder and stronger way of space powet projection. Landing humans on Moon will be greater.


But yes, you are right. If we soft land on Venus, Mars will be cakewalk.

Mars has no atmosphere

Mars does have an atmosphere. There is a reason landers have heat shield.

Given Mars has lower gravity and not atmosphere harsh as Venus, experience of landing on Venus may actually make Mars landing way easy.

 

[Anonymous Bharata]

These two payloads VEDAM & MNMS from PRL sound like Payloads for Venus Atmosphere Decent Probe

PRL updated it's website recently, many old payloads were removed, but these were kept


Venus Cloud Dynamics and Meteorology Experiment (VEDAM)
VEDAM is a meteorological suite with additional local imaging, wind velocity and particle size measurements. VEDAM consists Meteorology Suite (MET) - Temperature, Pressure, Ambient Light/Solar Radiation, Anemometer (ANEM) - Horizontal and Vertical Wind velocities and Nephelometer (NEPH) - Size and distributions of Venus cloud particles.
Miniature Neutral Mass spectrometer (MNMS)
This instrument will determine in-situ abundances of neutral species in the upper troposphere, Search for the presence of Sulphur and Chlorine compounds and Study of dynamics of the middle atmosphere of Venus clouds and their formation of different layers

Other Missions

www.prl.res.in