VATMOS-SR (Venus ATMOSpheric - Sample Return) is a small space- craft mission concept that would return several gas samples from the upper atmosphere of Venus (< 110 km) to Earth for scientific analysis. This could be the first sample return mission for an extraterrestrial atmosphere and potentially the first sample return from an Earth-sized planet. The VATMOS-SR mission concept consists of a SmallSat atmospheric sampling probe (45 deg. sphere/cone geometry, <1 m diameter) that is designed to skim through the Venus upper atmosphere and ac- quire gas samples below the homopause altitude (around ~110 km altitude), where the different atmospheric gases are mixed. The velocity of the spacecraft where sampling would occur is expected to be between ~10.5 km/s and ~13.1 km/s, depending on the trajectory chosen (e.g. trajectory shown in Fig. 1).


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    Title :

    Venus Atmospheric Sample Return (VATMOS-SR) Mission Concept


    Contributors:
    J. Rabinovitch (author) / A. Borner (author) / M. A. Gallis (author) / R. Parai (author) / M. P. Petkov (author) / G. Avice (author) / C. Sotin (author)

    Publication date :

    2023


    Size :

    2 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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