Russia (bbabo.net), - The participation of the Americans in the joint Venera-D project with Roscosmos may be excluded due to US sanctions affecting the Russian space industry.

According to the general director of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, under the sanctions, US participation in the project is impossible. The mission will be implemented by Russia independently or with the participation of China. Dmitry Rogozin told TASS about this.

Yesterday, he instructed to begin negotiations with Beijing on the coordination and mutual technical support of all missions to study deep space. Earlier, Rogozin said that due to US sanctions, joint projects similar to the Spektr observatory are impossible.

On February 25, US President Joe Biden said that the sanctions of the United States and its allies would hit the high-tech sector of the Russian Federation, as well as its space program. The US will block more than half of high-tech imports to Russia. Biden stressed that this would harm, including the Russian space program. In turn, the head of Roskosmos said that Russia, despite US sanctions, will continue to make spacecraft, expanding the production of the necessary components and devices at home.

Russian scientists plan to send three missions to Venus in 2029-2034. The last of them will try for the first time in history to deliver soil from there, - Lev Zeleny, scientific director of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said at the Royal Readings in January. "We are no longer thinking about one Venera-D mission, but about a whole program," he specified. According to the presentation, three missions under the Russian Venus exploration program are scheduled for 2029, 2031 and 2034.

In 2029, the Venera-D spacecraft will depart with orbital, landing, demonstration and atmospheric modules. As scientists from the IKI RAS explain, the Venera-D project will continue research on Venus using an orbiter, a sub-satellite and a lander equipped with a wide range of scientific equipment. The inclusion of a long-lived station in the project, which will work on the surface of Venus for about 60 days, is being worked out.

This is the first time such a complex space project will be implemented. This is a continuation of the fundamental research on Venus, which was actively carried out in the 60-80s and early 90s by Soviet and American missions. Over the years, specialists have received a large amount of data on the structure and composition of the atmosphere, the cloud layer, wind speeds, and surface composition. However, many issues related to the dynamics of the atmosphere, the problems of superrotation, the giant greenhouse effect, the evolution of Venus, and others have remained unresolved.

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