Vladivostok, Aug. 17 -- Russia plans to launch its Venera-D interplanetary mission to revisit Venus before 2036, and preparations are already underway, local media reported on Sunday.
The mission is now part of the country's new national space program, and the preliminary design work on the mission will begin in January 2026, coinciding with the start of the national space project, Oleg Korablev, head of the Department of Planetary Physics at the Space Research Institute (IKI) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, was quoted as saying by TASS news agency.
The draft design phase is expected to take two years, and preparations have commenced in collaboration with the Lavochkin Association, a Russian space industry enterprise, including mult...