Russia plans to launch its Venera-D interplanetary mission to revisit Venus earlier than 2036, and preparations are already underway, state media reported on Sunday.
The mission is now a part of the nation’s new nationwide area programme, and the preliminary design work on the mission will start in January 2026, coinciding with the beginning of the nationwide area venture, Oleg Korablev, head of the Division of Planetary Physics on the Area Analysis Institute (IKI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, was quoted as saying by TASS information company.
The draft design section is anticipated to take two years, and preparations have commenced in collaboration with the Lavochkin Affiliation, a Russian area business enterprise, together with a number of coordination conferences to streamline progress, stated Korablev, Xinhua Information Company reported.
The scientist famous that the mission’s launch date can be decided after the design stage is full. “However it can positively happen inside the present planning interval, no later than 2036,” he stated.
The Venera-D mission is deliberate to incorporate a lander, a balloon probe, and an orbital spacecraft. Earlier this yr, IKI’s scientific director and academician Lev Zeleny stated the launch is unlikely earlier than 2034 or 2035.
Earlier this month, 4 astronauts from the US, Japan, and Russia, a part of the NASA rotation mission, efficiently docked on the Worldwide Area Station (ISS), after an roughly 15-hour journey, the US area company stated on August 2.
Referred to as Crew 11, the group includes NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Company) astronaut Kimiya Yui, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov.
The crew lifted off at 11.43 a.m. Jap Time (9.13 p.m. IST) aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Area Heart in Florida on August 1.
The crew-11 joined NASA astronauts Anne McClain, Nichole Ayers, and Jonny Kim, JAXA astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Kirill Peskov, Sergey Ryzhikov, and Alexey Zubritsky, who had been already on board the ISS.