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  1. Jun 3, 2021 · The U.S. space agency said it was awarding about $500 million each to develop the two missions, dubbed DAVINCI+ (short for Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble Gases, Chemistry and...

    • A Focus of Early Exploration
    • A Return to Venus
    • The Coming Missions

    Venus has been in the limelight before. The Soviet Uniontargeted the planet frequently from the 1960s through the mid-1980s with its Venera and Vega programs, notching a variety of exploration milestones along the way (despite a number of launch failures). In October 1967, for instance, Venera 4 became the first probe ever to beam data home from th...

    Venus faded as an exploration target for several reasons. The decline of the Soviet Union and its eventual collapse in the early 1990s had a chilling effect, for example; Vega 2 remains the last successful fully homegrown interplanetary mission launched by the Soviet Union or its successor state, Russia. (Russia's federal space agency, Roscosmos, a...

    VERITAS and DAVINCI+ were selected by NASA's Discovery program, which develops relatively low-cost exploration projects. The price tag of each mission is capped at around $500 million, and each is expected to launch between 2028 and 2030. VERITAS (short for "Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSAR, Topography and Spectroscopy") will map Venus' surfa...

  2. Jun 4, 2021 · Published: June 4, 2021 8:34am EDT. For decades, the exploration of our solar system left one of our neighbouring planets, Venus, largely unexplored. Now, things are about to change. In the...

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  3. Jun 2, 2021 · NASA is awarding approximately $500 million per mission for development. Each is expected to launch in the 2028-2030 timeframe. The selected missions are: DAVINCI+ (Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging)

  4. Jun 3, 2021 · The agency has picked two new robotic missions to explore the hot hell-world of Venus, Earths neighbor and the second planet from the Sun, administrator Bill Nelson announced on Wednesday.

  5. Jun 2, 2021 · Discovery missions are capped at $500 million, excluding costs for the launch vehicle and mission operations. Both new Venus missions will launch between 2028 and 2030 and will carry...

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  7. Jun 2, 2021 · In the past year, a neglected Venus re-entered the planetary limelight after a team of scientists using Earth-based telescopes claimed they had discovered compelling evidence for microbes...