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  1. Mar 15, 2024 · The space agency now plans to send a spacecraft to Venus as early as 2031, a few years later than its original plan to launch in 2027. What changed—and what are the upsides of going to Venus...

  2. Jun 4, 2021 · On Wednesday, June 2, NASA administrator Bill Nelson announced that the agency would send two new missions to Earth’s inner neighbor by 2030. One of them, DAVINCI+, is an atmospheric probe...

  3. Jun 2, 2021 · Both new Venus missions will launch between 2028 and 2030 and will carry technology demonstrations as well as the main science components, NASA said in a press release.

    • Psyche: Mission to A Metal-Rich Asteroid
    • Dart to Crash Into An Asteroid
    • Triple Crown Moment For Venus
    • Europa Clipper: Tweaking The Trajectory
    • New Robots For Mars
    • Two Big Anniversaries on Mars
    • Parker Solar Probe’S Close encounters
    • Private Companies Deliver Science to The Moon
    • Going Deep to Improve Space Communications

    Launching in August 2022, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft will orbit a metal-rich asteroid also called Psychein the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

    DARTwill slam into asteroid Dimorphos this fall to test technology for defending Earth against potential asteroid or comet hazards.

    Three new missions to Venus are in development in 2022, after being announced by NASA and ESA last year. NASA’s VERITAS and DAVINCIwill complement the European Space Agency’s EnVision to provide the most comprehensive study of Venus ever.

    Scientists are busy tweaking the Europa Clipper’s planned trajectoryahead of the mission's launch in 2024. The spacecraft will determine whether Europa has the potential for conditions suitable for life.

    NASA is participating in new international missions to Mars. The 2022 ExoMars Rover and Surface Platformwill help understand if life ever existed on Mars.

    Curiosity marks 10 years on Mars in 2022. The rover is helping determine if Mars ever had the right conditions to support microbes. NASA's MarsPathfindermission ushered in a new era of exploration when it landed on July 4, 1997, bringing with it Sojourner – the first rover on Mars.

    In 2021, a spacecraft touched the Sunfor the first time. Parker will have more close encounters with the Sun in 2022.

    Astrobotic and Intuitive Machines are scheduled to launch scientific payloads to the Moon as part of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services(CLPS) initiative.

    Deep Space Optical Communications(DSOC) will launch aboard NASA’s Psyche mission to help spacecraft communicate faster with Earth.

  4. Jun 8, 2021 · Both are expected to launch by 2028 to 2030. From a total of four finalists announced last year, the winning missions are DAVINCI+ (Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry...

  5. 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 ...

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  7. Mar 11, 2022 · Over a few short weeks of June 2021, NASA committed to two new Venus missions, VERITAS and DAVINCI, while the European Space Agency greenlit one called EnVision. All three are expected to...

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