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.
C. Wilson – Welcome; Local information
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