Venus Entry Probe - 24-25 January Oxford meeting

This is a temporary website, to disseminate the presentations from this meeting. The contents of this page will eventually be archived on the VEP website.

Here you will find a Report of meeting, including new baseline mission scenario, as compiled by C. Wilson.

Also an agenda, and a List of action items items arising from the meeting.

Presentations

C. Wilson – Welcome; Local information

E. Chassefière - Reminder of what the VEP mission is (science objectives, instruments, mission scenarios)

J. Blamont - General thoughts and balloon concepts for VEP; presentation slides (pdf), and supporting document

Tetsuya Yamada (ISAS/JAXA) - Science case for Japan's low-altitude Venus balloon

Tetsuya Yamada (ISAS/JAXA) - Japan's in situ Venus balloon mission

T. Imamura/ T. Yamada/ M. Nakamura - Status of the Japanese Venus entry probe

N. Sanko (Roskosmos) - Russian Federal programme and Venera-D

V. Vorontsov (Lavochkin Association) – Russian Venus Missions

O. Korablev / S. Linkin / L. Zelenyi / L. Zasova - Russian scientific interest for VEP

T. Balint - Recap of VEXAG3 meeting, US plans and possible implication in VEP

O. Witasse - Aerobraking with Venus-Express

Csaba Ferencz - Orbiter strawman Payload

Colin Wilson - Balloon strawman payload (& microprobe payload)

Alton Horsfall - High-temperature Gas sensors for microprobes

Simeon Barber – Mass Spectrometry for balloon and for microprobes

Olivier Witasse - Descent probe strawman payload

Johannes Leitner - Status of landing site working group

J. Michaud - VEP mission scenarios, summary of CNES mission studies

K. Aplin - VEPI paper, current status & next steps