India planning Venus mission

[CarbonD]

TIRUPATI: An Indian scientific mission to Venus is being considered by the space community. This was announced by M S Anurup of Isro at the 17th National Space Science Symposium which has been jointly organised by Isro and Sri Venkateshwara University.

According to Anurup, a preliminary study had indicated that if this mission gets the go ahead and depending upon the orbital parameters, it could be launched on May 20, 2015 arriving in Venus in October 2015. There could be about five scientific instruments on board the Venus-bound spacecraft. The rocket could either be the advanced version of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-XL) or the Geo Synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) or the newer version of the GSLV designated as GSLV Mark3.The preliminary study states that the main role of the Indian mission to Venus would be to study its atmosphere. It will also help to examine the origin and evolution of terrestrial planets.

The report has expressed confidence that based on the success of the Chandrayaan-1 mission, India has the capability to launch a mission to Venus. In addition, with the launch of Risat-1 satellite next month, India will possess a radar imaging capability which will be necessary for the Venus mission. In another recent development, scientists of the Ahmedabad-based Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) have reported the existence of a cavity on Mars for the first time measuring 500 metres by 100 metres.

This was announced by them at the Tirupati space meet through a poster. The project which was based on the data obtained from Nasa Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) was jointly done by SVS Murthy and Rishitosh Sinha of PRL. Sinha said the newly-found cavity is bowl shaped and is located at the foot of a crater hill.
India planning Venus mission - The Times of India
Good we (world) need the revival of Space race, the only way to rapid development

 

[Federer]

I think we should go for Fly-bys than a Orbiter Mission.

Apart from USA no country has the capability to send an orbiter.

Japan - Nozomi Mars 1998 Failed.
Akatsuki Venus 2010 Failed.

Russia - Mars 1996 Blasted in Earths Orbit.
Phobos Grunt 2011 Failed.

EU - 1 Mars Mission and 1 Venus Mission.

Says that all!

Future Flybys Include Bepicolombo and 1 Orbiter Venera D (Russia) 2016.

IMO, India should go for a Fly-by to Mercury/Venus to learn the techniques for Interplanetary Missions.

 

[Gautam]

that's a good news !

 

[OrionHunter]

Good! I hope they send some of our darned politicians too who can be dumped on Venus, along with a duffel bag of ****!

 

[Chogy]

It's very cool that other countries are sending up scientific missions, but I wish they would execute stuff that hasn't been done yet. We already have plenty of data on Venus, and it is freely shared.

How about retrieval missions? Land, then bring back material - from Mars, an asteroid or two, or a comet.

 

[KRAIT]

Great news.....world going to mars, we going to venus....i am happy that india instead of imitating, is interested on working on its own research....

P.S. Hope poverty in india crying people won't derail this thread....

 

[God of Death]

Dream big and work harder to achive them............good going India

 

[IndoUS]

Its good, even if the mission fails we will learn important things from it. We have just started to explore the space/solar system so doing these kind of mission will help the scientific community a lot.

Best of luck to the ISRO.

 

[ZABASHO]

how far are we from making a decent sedan (100% indigenous) perhaps a small fixed wing airliner, even a fighter jet?
But apparently, we need to send an exploratory mission to a red hot planet, while keep buying items of everyday use from overseas

 

[IndoUS]

how far are we from making a decent sedan (100% indigenous) perhaps a small fixed wing airliner, even a fighter jet?
But apparently, we need to send an exploratory mission to a red hot planet, while keep buying items of everyday use from overseas

You do realize that the these kind of missions help in the development of a lot of things, take the supercomputers, radars to study the surface communication systems and most important of all the missile technology.

 

[ZABASHO]

You do realize that the these kind of missions help in the development of a lot of things, take the supercomputers, radars to study the surface communication systems and most important of all the missile technology.

any examples that come to mind wrt our ISRO/DRDO and local industries/communities?

 

[Rajaraja Chola]

thats great news....
all missions are equally important... they will help in one way or other for the world human kind.......

 

[Skull and Bones]

Maybe we should send a probe into deep space with some **** DVDs stashed in it, just in case some extra terrestrials have some query regarding our reproduction system.

 

[Nirvana]

Maybe we should send a probe into deep space with some **** DVDs stashed in it, just in case some extra terrestrials have some query regarding our reproduction system.

Or send Sunny leone along , they can give her a try

 

[Jade]

It's very cool that other countries are sending up scientific missions, but I wish they would execute stuff that hasn't been done yet. We already have plenty of data on Venus, and it is freely shared.

How about retrieval missions? Land, then bring back material - from Mars, an asteroid or two, or a comet.

I think retrieval missions would be very very costly and of less use. Even for US, the cost would be beyond its reach. It is better that the mission include on site testing and sending back the information.

I think we have the least information about Venus of all the rocky planets, because of high temperatures and dense clouds.