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Nov 9, 2017 · Dozens of spacecraft have launched to explore Venus, but not all have been successful. NASA's Mariner 2 was the first spacecraft to visit any planet beyond Earth when it flew past Venus on Dec. 14, 1962. NASA is planning two new missions to Venus: VERITAS, and DAVINCI.
- 2001 Mars Odyssey. Mission: This Mars orbiter was launched with the intention of detecting water and ice on the planet, as well as studying its composition.
- Aditya-L1. Mission: The mission, which name means “Sun” in Sanskrit, was launched to conduct a comprehensive study of the Sun, sitting at the Lagrange point L1 between the Sun and Earth.
- Akatsuki. Mission: The orbiter mission was designed to study weather patterns and atmospheric conditions, as well as search for the possibility of lighting and active volcanoes.
- Ariel. Mission: This mission will be placed at Lagrange point L2 to study thousands of exoplanets, ranging from rocky planets to gas giants in visible and infrared wavelengths.
Upcoming Planetary Events and Missions. 2024 December 2 - Bepi-Colombo - ESA mission makes its fifth Mercury flyby. 2024 December 13 - Lucy - NASA asteroid mission makes second Earth flyby. 2024 December - Resilience - Launch of JAXA lunar lander and rover.
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 at...
- 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.
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.
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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 ...
