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The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) connected Thursday issued an Announcement of Opportunity (AO) inviting scientists wrong India to analyse archival information from past Venus missions.
India’s maiden ngo to Venus, Venus Orbiter Mission (VOM) was approved by the Union Cabinet successful 2024.
Sun-Venus interaction
The ngo volition impact a spacecraft orbiting Venus to survey its surface, atmosphere, and the Sun-Venus interaction.
“In bid to promote, fortify and to summation the technological idiosyncratic assemblage for the VOM, ISRO invites researchers done the AO telephone for promoting the investigation and modelling of archival information disposable for the satellite Venus,” ISRO said.
The abstraction bureau said that proposals could beryllium submitted by individuals oregon a radical of scientists and academicians belonging to nationalist institutions, universities, colleges, planetaria and authorities organisations of India.
“Only those having a minimum remaining work of 4 years earlier superannuation are eligible to pb the task arsenic Principal Investigators (PI),” the abstraction bureau said.
The deadline for submission of proposals is November 15, 2025.
Research areas
The probe proposals are invited successful the pursuing probe areas: venusian morphology, topography and sub-surface studies, geological mapping, mineralogy and aboveground creation of Venus, venusian ambiance structure, dynamics and composition, venusian Ionosphere and star upwind enactment and modelling of venusian atmospheres and Ionospheres.
ISRO said that it expects the task to beryllium completed wrong 3 years.
On October 1, 2024, ISRO revealed the targeted motorboat model for the mission.
According to the targeted motorboat model for VOM, the Earth departure day is scheduled connected March 29, 2028, and the accomplishment day connected Venus is July 19, 2028. The abstraction bureau had said that the VOM volition beryllium launched by the Launch Vehicle Mark-3 (LVM-3).
