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Venusian Atmospheric Interplanetary CubeSat Concept

V-ATOMICC or Venusian Atmospheric Interplanetary CubeSat Concept is a 6U CubeSat concept mission designed and dedicated to finding significant evidence or lack thereof, of the compound phosphine in the hospitable range of the Venusian atmosphere. This project was created in response to the controversial article published in Nature Astronomy which showed a possible detection of the spectral fingerprint of phosphine by the Atacama Large Millimeter Array and the James Clark Maxwell Telescope. Phosphine is composed of one phosphorus atom with three connected hydrogen atoms. It is theorized that phosphine is a potential biosignature gas and finding evidence of a significant concentration could mean the potential for life on Venus. Utilizing a CubeSat concept to gather data up close will give us far more definitive results than observations made from Earth and eliminate the current controversy.

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