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Venus Life Finder is a planned uncrewed spacecraft to Venus designed to detect signs of life in the Venusian atmosphere. [4] Slated to be the first private mission to another planet, the spacecraft is being developed by Rocket Lab in collaboration with a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . [ 6 ]
Rocket Lab is partnering with MIT to develop the Venus Life Finder mission with a single science instrument that will catalog molecules in the Venusian clouds and determine whether any are organic — a possible indication of life.
Dec 16, 2021 · Now a privately funded mission to find the origin of these signatures is planned for launch in May 2023. The MIT-led team behind the plan—called the Venus Life Finder Mission--say their spacecraft will look for signs of life in the Venusian clouds. Astronomers have long noted various strange phenomena in Venusian clouds.
Jan 18, 2022 · The MIT-led team behind the plan — called the Venus Life Finder Mission — say their spacecraft will look for signs of life in the Venusian clouds.
Feb 20, 2024 · The Venus Life Finder Mission team, based at MIT, wants to send a small, single-instrument probe to descend through the clouds that permanently huddle over Earth’s nearest neighbor next May,...
Dec 10, 2021 · The 18-month MIT-led Venus Life Finder Mission Study is now complete. The Venus Life Finder Missions are a series of focused astrobiology mission concepts to search for habitability, signs of life, and life itself in the Venus atmosphere.
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Mar 28, 2024 · Called the Venus Life Finder, this mission will send a spacecraft named Photon to fly past Venus and drop a small, single-instrument probe into the planet's atmosphere.
