European Venus Explorer
The European Venus Explorer (EVE), known until 2007 as the Venus Entry Probe (VEP), is a proposed
EVE was a Medium-Class mission proposal in the Cosmic Vision programme.[5] The mission concept consisted of an orbiter and balloon which would circumnavigate the planet over the course of one week, and a lander probe which would operate for approximately one hour on the surface.[5]
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.[1][5]
References
External links
- ESA - Venus Entry Probe - an atmospheric probe
- Contractor for the SSTL/ESA – Venus Entry Probe study Archived 2018-06-22 at the Wayback Machine
- French article mentioning the Venus Entry Probe