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A Systems Approach to the Exploration and Resource Utilization of Venus and Mercury

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Missions to Venus have been launched starting with the year 1961 and a total of 38 missions have been so far launched covering a range of mission scenarios including fly-by, orbiting and atmospheric and landing probes.

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  1. Airbus Defence and Space, Bremen, Germany

    Dragoş Alexandru Păun

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  1. Candida Oancea Institute, Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

    Viorel Badescu

  2. Honeybee Robotics, Pasadena, California, USA

    Kris Zacny

Glossary

Aerobraking Menoeuver

are manoeuvres that allow a spacecraft to use the upper atmosphere of a planet in order to reduce velocity through drag

ASRG

Advanced Stirling Radioisotope Generator

C & DH

Communication and Data Handling

Gravity Assist Manoeuver

are manoeuvres that are used to add momentum to a spacecraft by making use of its relative movement around a body and that body’s gravity

RTG

a Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator represents a type of power generation device that converts the heat generated by a radioactive material into electric power

TRL

the Technology Readiness Level reflects the level of maturity of a particular space technology and the degree of risk it implies

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Păun, D.A. (2015). A Systems Approach to the Exploration and Resource Utilization of Venus and Mercury. In: Badescu, V., Zacny, K. (eds) Inner Solar System. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19569-8_16

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