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ISRO plans mission to Venus by Dec 2024

The Indian Space Research Organisation will send a spacecraft to orbit Venus to study what lies below its surface, the space body’s Chairperson S Somnath.

ISRO is expecting to launch the mission by December 2024 with an orbital manoeuvre planned for a year after that,
In 2025, the Earth and Venus would be aligned in a manner that it would require a minimum amount of propellant for the spacecraft to enter the orbit of the hottest planet in the Solar System.
The aim of the mission is to study Venus’ atmosphere, which is toxic and corrosive in nature as clouds of sulfuric acid cover the planet.
Shukrayaan is the Indian space mission to Venus by ISRO

By: Brijesh Kumar

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