EnVision
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EnVision is an orbital mission to Venus being developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) that is planned to perform high-resolution radar mapping and atmospheric studies. EnVision is designed to help scientists understand the relationships between its geological activity and the atmosphere, and it will investigate why Venus and Earth took different evolutionary paths. The probe was selected as the fifth medium mission (M5) of ESA's Cosmic Vision programme in June 2021, with launch planned for December 2031. The mission will be conducted in collaboration with NASA.
Key facts
- Spaceflight.name
- EnVision
- Spaceflight.image
- EnVision mission.jpg
- Spaceflight.image_size
- 300px
- Spaceflight.mission_type
- Venus orbiter
- Spaceflight.operator
- European Space Agency
- Spaceflight.website
- esa.int/.../Envision
- Spaceflight.mission_duration
- 4.5 years (planned)
- Spaceflight.manufacturer
- Thales Alenia Space
- Spaceflight.power
- 2.35 kW
- Spaceflight.launch_date
- December 2031 (planned)
- Spaceflight.launch_rocket
- Ariane 64
- Spaceflight.launch_site
- Kourou ELA-4
- Spaceflight.launch_contractor
- Arianespace
- Spaceflight.trans_band
- X-band, Ka-band
- Spaceflight.programme
- Cosmic Vision
- Spaceflight.previous_mission
- ARIEL
- Spaceflight/IP.type
- orbiter
- Spaceflight/IP.object
- Venus
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Operator
- European Space Agency
- Manufacturer
- Thales Alenia Space
- Official website
- www.esa.int/envision
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- Commons category
- EnVision
- funder
- European Space Agency
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 2031-11-00
- destination point
- Venus
- powered by
- spacecraft solar array
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Project history
- Background
- Development
- Science goals
- Spacecraft
- Instruments
- Venus Synthetic Aperture Radar (VenSAR)
- Venus Subsurface Radar Sounder (SRS)
- Venus Spectroscopy Suite (VenSpec)
- Radio Science Experiment
- See also
- References
- External links
EnVision is an orbital mission to Venus being developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) that is planned to perform high-resolution radar mapping and atmospheric studies. EnVision is designed to help scientists understand the relationships between its geological activity and the atmosphere, and it will investigate why Venus and Earth took different evolutionary paths. The probe was selected as the fifth medium mission (M5) of ESA's Cosmic Vision programme in June 2021, with launch planned for December 2031. The mission will be conducted in collaboration with NASA.
thumb|upright=1.0|right|Animation of EnVision proposed trajectory from 15 June 2032 to 1 March 2034 thumb|upright=1.0|right|Animation of EnVision's proposed trajectory during the aerobraking phase around Venus
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “EnVision” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.