Venus Global Reference Atmospheric Model Status and Planned Updates

Abstract: The Venus Global Reference Atmospheric Model (Venus-GRAM) was originally developed in 2004 under funding from NASA’s In Space Propulsion (ISP) Aerocapture Project to support mission studies at the planet. Many proposals, including NASA New Frontiers and Discovery, as well as other studies have used Venus-GRAM to design missions and assess system robustness. After Venus-GRAM’s release in 2005, several missions to Venus have generated a wealth of additional atmospheric data, yet few model updat…