The paper looks at experience drawn from soil landings of Soviet «Venera 9-14» and «Vega 1-2» landers. The experience can be useful for developing joint Russian-American mission «Venera-D» with the aim of delivering a long-lasting automatic space lander to the surface of Venus. By landing the paper means the final moment of lander’s descent in the atmosphere, when the lander directly contacts the soil. The reason for successful landings on Venus soil of Soviet «Venera 9-14» and «Vega 1-2» landers is explained. 8 landers with toroidal landing gear made successful landings in the period of ten years. Recommendations for developing future systems for landing on Venusian soil are given.


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    Title :

    “Venera 9-14” and “Vega 1-2” spacecraft landing experience for the future venus missions



    Conference:

    XLIII ACADEMIC SPACE CONFERENCE: dedicated to the memory of academician S.P. Korolev and other outstanding Russian scientists – Pioneers of space exploration ; 2019 ; Moscow, Russia


    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2019-11-15


    Size :

    7 pages





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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