Propulsion - Orbital Mechanics (page 5 of 6)
The probe will be jettisoned in the following manner:
Figure 6:
Jettisoning
Procedure
The satellite will attempt to make contact with the probe at its landing site on the equator. The distance between Venus and Earth over mission duration is shown below. This will be important to the link budget calculations between the satellite and the DSN networks on Earth.
Figure 7: Distance to Earth over Mission Duration
The distance varies between 1.812e11 and 2.49e11 meters.