Russia may prefer US participation in the Venera-D project due to the adoption
Participation in the Venera-D projects mixed with Roskosmos may be ruled out due to US-led cases of penetration into the Russian space administration.
According to the general director of Roskosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, it is impossible under the conditions of US participation in the project. The mission will be implemented in Russia independently or with the participation of China. Dmitry Rogozin announced this TASS.
Yesterday, he gave instructions on the need to move with Beijing in coordination and mutual technical support of all missions on the history of deep space. Earlier, Rogozin stated that due to the decision of the United States, joint projects that disappeared with the Spektr-RG observatory are impossible.
On February 25, US President Joe Biden said that the United States and its allies would hit the high-tech sector of the Russian Federation, as well as its space program. The US will cut off more than half of Russia’s high-tech imports. Biden drew attention to the fact that this harms, among other things, the Russian space program. In turn, the head of Roskosmos said that Russia, despite the support of the United States, stopped making spacecraft and launched the production of food products and appliances for itself.
Russian calculations plan to send three missions to Venus in 2029-2034. – Leo Zeleny, scientific director of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said in January at the Royal Readings. “We are no longer thinking about one Venera-D mission, but about another program,” he specified. According to the presentation, three missions under the Russian Venus exploration program are scheduled for 2029, 2031 and 2034.
In 2029, the Venera-D spacecraft is sent with orbital, landing, demonstration and atmospheric modules. As the studies of IKI RAS explain, the “Venera-Distre” project is the study of Venus using an orbiter, a sub-satellite and a lander equipped with a wide range of scientific equipment. The inclusion of a long-lived station in the project, which operates on the surface of Venus for about 60 days, is being worked out.
A space project of this complexity will be implemented. This is a continuation of fundamental research on Venus, which was actively accumulated in the 1960s–1980s and in the early 1990s by Soviet and proposed missions. Over the years, specialists have received a large amount of data, the natural composition and composition of the atmosphere, the cloud layer, wind speed, surface composition. However, many issues related to the dynamics of the environment, the problems of superrotation, the giant greenhouse effect, the evolution of Venus, and others have remained unresolved.