Russia aims to reclaim Soviet space glory with 2036 launch of ambitious Venus mission

by Cristiano1

18 Comments

  1. Very unlikely. IKI RAN (organisation for scientific space exploration) is underfunded as never before, and unlikely to order anything from Roscosmos (hardware manufacturer/launch operator), that constantly recieving orders from MoD, producing military hardware. It’s also lagging in production capabilities, so, it’s far from current priorities for the next decade at least.

    No money for fundamental science. Even before, previous missions were often relying on foreign participation. There were no substantial interest from government, but now interest is literally negative.

  2. Venus is the tutorial planet. The reason why Soviet union was spaming probes at Venus was that they had huge problems with sending probes anywhere else. 

  3. WasLeftUnsupervised on

    Maybe if the whole world starts cheering this on with wild applause, it would distract Putin’s miscreant ego enough to get him to focus on this and end the war in Ukraine.

    And hey, I’d be psyched to see how well modern materials and engineering can survive on Venus. It should be a contest every decade: submit your craft, we’ll fly them all to Venus and release them at the same time. Clock starts when you touchdown. Longest transmission wins

  4. The next Russian Venus mission always has the same time table as NASA crewed Mars missions.

  5. throwawayhyperbeam on

    Would be really awesome to see some new photos from the surface. Just imagine the things we could do if there were some way to get along.

  6. What’s up with the Russians and Venus? I mean, yeah, it’s cool and all but there are other celestial bodies out there, guys.

  7. IJustLookLikeThis13 on

    I hope Russia tries to send people to Venus. That’d be cool to watch; I don’t think they’d make it there, and I don’t think they’d survive.

  8. alvinofdiaspar on

    Venera D has been on the books way way before 2022. Even if it did get into implementation – Russian planetary missions had an extremely poor track record (e.g. Phobos Grunt)

  9. I’m sure Putin intends to win all elections until he literally starts to rot but what a vision… what is he gonna do when no one wants oil?