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Possible Flight Trajectories to Venus with Landing in a Given Region

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We analyze the use of a promising technique for designing the flight trajectories to Venus with the application of a gravity-assist maneuver and resonant orbits to deliver a lander to regions on the surface of Venus with a high scientific significance where no landing can be made in the classical approach to designing the flight trajectories used in the missions of the Soviet Venera and Vega programs. Within the promising Russian Venera-D mission we consider the landing with the application of the above technique in Vellamo-South and Kutue-South, in which no landing is possible for the launch in 2031 and the classical approach to choosing a landing site. We take into account the constraints imposed by the requirements of accomplishing the flight mission to Venus by a spacecraft consisting of a lander and an orbital module. We show the efficiency of the applied technique both in choosing landing sites for the lander and in choosing an orbit for the orbital module.

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  1. By the spacecraft orbit resonant with the planetary orbit in a \(m:n\) ratio (below such a spacecraft orbit will be called \(m:n\) resonant for short) we mean a heliocentric spacecraft orbit, with the ratio of its period to the orbital period of the planet being a rational number \(m/n\).

  2. From 2006 to 2015 the Venera-D project was included in the Federal Space Program, in 2021 the work on the Venera-D project was resumed, and since 2022 the project is maintained exclusively by the RF.

  3. Report of the Venera-D (JSDT) January 31, 2019) http://www.iki.rssi.ru/events/2019/Venera-DPhaseIIFinalReport.pdf (access date September 15, 2022).

  4. The perpendicular drawn from the focus of the hyperbolic spacecraft orbit to the asymptote.

  5. The functional being used to search for optimal trajectories is close to the one being currently used within the Venera-D project or, more specifically, \(\Delta V_{0}+\Delta V_{1}\), where \(\Delta V_{1}\) is the braking impulse for injection into a diurnal hesperocentric orbit (Simonov et al. 2021).

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Zubko, V.A. Possible Flight Trajectories to Venus with Landing in a Given Region. Astron. Lett. 48, 806–819 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063773722110123

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