France refuses to create joint device with Russia to study Venus

France has abandoned plans to create, together with Russia, a device for the orbiter that India plans to launch to Venus.  

"Unfortunately, the French Space Agency announced that they are no longer interested in participating in this project, but we can buy everything ourselves," Oleg Korablev, deputy director of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences for the ExoMars project, head of the Planetary Physics department of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, told TASS. 

The device is intended to study the atmosphere of Venus by spectroscopy. Some of the components were supposed to be French.

French parts will be replaced with Russian-made parts - this issue has already been agreed with Roscosmos, Korablev said.

However, the terms of their production may be delayed, the scientist noted. This is due to the fact that the Indian corporation has not yet provided the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences with the necessary funding.