Tradespace Exploration of Space System Architecture and Design for India's Shukrayaan-1, Venus Orbiter Mission

The CO2 profile and analytical model for the Pioneer Venus Large Probe neutral mass spectrometer

“…Venus is again emerging as an exciting target for planetary exploration with multiple upcoming missions including DAVINCI and VERITAS from NASA (Garvin et al, 2022, Smrekar et al, 2022, EnVision from ESA (Ghail, 2021), Shukrayaan-1 from the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) (Antonita et al, 2022, Sundararajan, 2021, and a potential orbiter mission from the China National Space Administration (CNSA). Likewise, astrobiology considerations for Venus have a gained substantial interest with the 2023-2032 Decadal Report highlighting that "Venus's atmosphere has been suggested as a prospective abode for life" with a potential habitable zone in the middle clouds.…”

Geologically Recent Areas as One Key Target for Identifying Active Volcanism on Venus

“…The exploration of Venus will go through a new golden era thanks to the recently selected NASA Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSAR, Topography, and Spectroscopy (VERITAS) (Smrekar et al., 2020) and Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging (DAVINCI) (Garvin et al., 2022) missions, the ESA EnVision mission (Ghail et al., 2020), and the Roscosmos Venera‐D mission (Zasova et al., 2019). Moreover, other two missions are currently being evaluated for selection: the ISRO Shukrayaan‐1 mission (i.e., Haider et al., 2018; Sundararajan, 2021) and the Chinese VOICE mission (e.g., Wang et al., 2022). These missions will focus on the analysis of the chemical composition of the atmosphere and the geologic features of Venus.…”