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Scientific paper
Jan 1999
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999stin...0103947s&link_type=abstract
Technical Report, Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA United States
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Venus Surface, High Pressure, High Temperature, Samples, Venus (Planet), Costs, Estimating, Gravitation, Propulsion, Solar System
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A mission to return a sample to Earth from the surface of Venus faces a multitude of multidisciplinary challenges. In addition to the complications inherent in any sample return mission, Venus presents the additional difficulties of a deep gravity well essentially equivalent to Earth's and a hot-house atmosphere which generates extremes of high temperature, density, and pressure unmatched at any other known surface in the solar system. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the California Institute of Technology recently conducted a study to develop an architecture for such a mission; a major goal of this study was to identify technology developments which would need to be pursued in order to make such a mission feasible at a cost much less than estimated in previous. The final design of this mission is years away but the study results presented here show our current mission architecture as it applies to a particular mission opportunity, give a summary of the engineering and science trades which were made in the process of developing it, and identify the main technology development efforts needed.
Cameron Jonathon
Chen Gun-Shing
Cutts Jim
Gershman Bob
Gilmore Martha S.
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