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- From: rkornilo@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ryan Korniloff)
- Subject: Re: Next unmanned missions to Venus *
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.063904.27492@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 06:39:04 GMT
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- >Path: mnemosyne.cs.du.edu!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov!baalke
- >From: baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke)
- >Newsgroups: sci.space
- >Subject: Re: Next unmanned missions to Venus?
- >Date: 20 Jan 1993 05:55 UT
- >Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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- >Message-ID: <20JAN199305554423@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov>
- >References: <rabjab.25.727499456@golem.ucsd.edu>
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- >In article <rabjab.25.727499456@golem.ucsd.edu>, rabjab@golem.ucsd.edu (rabjab) writes...
- >>Does anyone know of plans for future Venus exploration? Any
- >>leads would be appreciated.
- >
- >The only mission I'm aware of that will be going to Venus within the
- >next 10 years is Cassini. Cassini will be making two Venus flybys
- >in 1998 and 1999 as part of its gravity assisted trajectory to Saturn.
- >But other than that, it looks pretty bleak for Venus missions. I know
- >several members of the Magellan team would like to see another spacecraft
- >dedicated to Venus. The Soviets had tentative plans a couple of years
- >ago to send a Venera spacecraft to Venus in 2005, but as far as I know
- >those plans have been abandoned.
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- Hmmm, well, I guess if we were to make any kind of serious exploration of
- Venus's surface we would have to develop electronics componants that
- operate comforably at 900f. And metals that can protect the inards of the
- probe from terrential sulfuric acid down-poors..
- How WOULD we do that by the way? Anyone know??
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- --- Ryan Korniloff
- --- rkornilo@nyx.cs.du.edu
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