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Sweden getting on board India’s Venus mission with payload to explore planet

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    10Pointer
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  • Published
    26th Nov, 2020

Sweden is getting on board India’s Venus orbiter mission ‘Shukrayaan’ with a scientific instrument to explore the planet.

Context

  • Sweden is getting on board India’s Venus orbiter mission ‘Shukrayaan’ with a scientific instrument to explore the planet.

What is Venus Mission?

  • ISRO is scheduled to launch its Venus mission in 2025.
  • Venus orbiter mission is known as ‘Shukrayaan’.
  • The payload capability of the proposed 2500-kg satellite, planned to be launched on GSLV Mk II rocket, is likely to be 175 kg with 500W of power.
  • The proposed orbit is expected to be around 500 x 60,000 km around Venus.
  • It will include “collaborative contributions” from Russia, France, Sweden and Germany.

What are its objectives?

  • Investigation of the surface processes and shallow subsurface stratigraphy
  • Solar wind interaction with Venusian Ionosphere
  • Studying the structure, composition and dynamics of the atmosphere

What will be sweden’s contribution?

  • IRF’s satellite instrument Venusian Neutrals Analyzer [VNA] will study how the charged particles from the Sun interact with the atmosphere and exosphere of the planet.
  • The VNA would be the ninth generation of IRFs series of miniatured ion and ENA (Energetic Neutral Atoms) instruments.

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