Russia and the United States will discuss the possibility of a joint mission to Venus

The concept of the probe "Venera-D" / Roskosmos

Lev Zeleny, director of the Space Research Institute, on September 28 at a press conference "50 years of basic science in space" announced that Russia and the United States intend to return to discussing a joint space mission to Venus.

“Negotiations will begin early next week,” Green said. He added that this mission was already discussed with NASA in January 2014, but after the events in Ukraine, negotiations were suspended for political reasons. According to him, the flight to Venus will take place no earlier than 2025, and the Venera-D project will be taken as the basis of the mission.

Venus-D , or “Venus Long-Lived” - a project of the Russian automatic interplanetary station for the study of Venus. It first appeared in 2003, and became the first post-Soviet project to explore Venus. Initially, it should have been included in the Federal Space Program for 2006-2015 with the launch in 2013.
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The main task of the mission will be to study the composition of the atmosphere and the surface of Venus, to determine the causes of the disappearance of water from this planet, to study the formation of the planet itself and its atmosphere, and the causes of the strong greenhouse effect. The project will involve an orbital station, a descent vehicle and several balloon probes.

The project has changed several times: initially in Roskosmos they wanted to make it on their own, then, after the deadline, the question of joint execution of the project with the European Space Agency, France, and Japan was discussed. In March 2012, the mission was moved to 2024.

In the distant future, the creation of the integrated research station "Venera-Glob" is planned. It should include an orbiter, a long-lived Venus station, balloon probes, and even a rover.

The first spacecraft to reach Venus was the automatic interplanetary station Venera-1, developed in the USSR. She flew past the planet on February 12, 1961. And the first to come to the surface of the planet was the Soviet apparatus Venus-3.