The European Venus Explorer (EVE), known until 2007 as the Venus Entry Probe (VEP), is a proposed
European Space Agency
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, spaceport = Guiana Space Centre
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space probe to
Venus
Venus is the second planet from the Sun. It is sometimes called Earth's "sister" or "twin" planet as it is almost as large and has a similar composition. As an interior planet to Earth, Venus (like Mercury) appears in Earth's sky never fa ...
. In the timeline of the 2005 TRS (technology reference study), the spacecraft was proposed to be launched on a
Soyuz-2/
Fregat launch vehicle around 2013.
[ESA description of the ''VEP'' technology reference study]
/ref> However, requests to fund and develop the spacecraft in 2007 and 2010 were rejected.
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EVE was a Medium-Class mission proposal in the Cosmic Vision
Cosmic Vision is the third campaign of space science and space exploration missions in the Science Programme of the European Space Agency (ESA). Formulated in 2005 as ''Cosmic Vision: Space Science for Europe 2015–2025'', the campaign succee ...
programme.[
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Overview
The mission concept calls for two satellites: the Venus Polar Orbiter (VPO), for remote sensing of the atmospheric, and the Venus Elliptical Orbiter (VEO), which deploys the entry probe from a highly elliptical orbit. The entry probe would contain a balloon-aerobot which floats in benign conditions at 55 km altitude in the middle cloud layer, and would drop up to 15 microprobes into the lower atmosphere.[
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References
External links
ESA - Venus Entry Probe
- an atmospheric probe
Contractor for the SSTL/ESA – Venus Entry Probe study
Missions to Venus
European Space Agency space probes
Orbiters (space probe)
Proposed space probes
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