Robotic exploration of Venus presents many challenges because of the thick atmosphere and the high surface temperatures. The Venus Aerobot Multisonde mission concept addresses these challenges by using a robotic balloon or aerobot to deploy a number of short lifetime probes or sondes to acquire images of the surface. A Venus aerobot is not only a good platform for precision deployment of sondes but is very effective at recovering high rate data. This paper describes the Venus Aerobot Multisonde concept and discusses a proposal to NASA's Discovery program using the concept for a Venus Exploration of Volcanoes and Atmosphere (VEVA). The status of the balloon deployment and inflation, balloon envelope, communications, thermal control and sonde deployment technologies are also reviewed.


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    Title :

    Venus Aerobot Multisonde Mission


    Contributors:
    J. A. Cutts (author) / V. Kerzhanovich (author) / J. B. Balaram (author) / B. Campbell (author) / R. Gershaman (author)

    Publication date :

    1999


    Size :

    10 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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