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- After arriving at Venus, the mission will use aerobraking to help slow the spacecraft and reshape its orbit. Once it completes aerobraking, VERITAS will circle the planet in a near-polar orbit, at its final science altitude of 250 miles (400 kilometers).
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Jun 2, 2021 · NASA has selected two new missions to Venus, Earth’s nearest planetary neighbor. Part of NASA’s Discovery Program , the missions aim to understand how Venus became an inferno-like world when it has so many other characteristics similar to ours – and may have been the first habitable world in the solar system, complete with an ocean and ...
VERITAS, and another mission called DAVINCI, will be the first NASA spacecraft to explore Venus since the 1990s. Veritas will discover the secrets of a lost habitable world, gathering data to reveal how the paths of Venus and Earth diverged.
Oct 24, 2024 · The first U.S. mission to Venus in more than three decades, VERITAS will study Earth's sister planet from crust to core. VERITAS is the next mission in NASA's Discovery Program of smaller, focused missions to explore the solar system, following Lucy (launched in 2021) and Psyche (launched in 2022).
VERITAS studies the surface and interior of Venus with a powerful new generation of scientific tools – the first NASA mission to return there since the 1990s. The mission was selected for flight in 2021 as part of NASA's Discovery program.
Jul 8, 2020 · Updated June 2, 2021: Following a competitive, peer-review process, VERITAS was selected with DAVINCI+ to be the next NASA missions to Venus. Chosen based on their potential scientific value and the feasibility, the project teams will now work to finalize their requirements, designs, and development plans.
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Jun 29, 2021 · After a 30-year drought of new NASA missions to Venus, two will rocket there within the decade, the product of countless hours of research and testing, rock fetching, helicopter riding—and...
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Jun 2, 2021 · NASA will send two new missions to Venus to learn more about how the planet's hellish atmosphere turned so hostile over its history. The announcement came on Wednesday (June 2) during NASA...
