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- The VERITAS (Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSAR, Topography, and Spectroscopy) mission is back on the schedule, with only a slight delay, the result of some budget shuffling and some very intense lobbying. 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.
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.
NASA's DAVINCI Will Study Venus With Flybys and Probe. 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.
Jun 2, 2021 · NASA’s next two missions, named DAVINCI+ and VERITAS, are heading to Venus, administrator Bill Nelson announced at a news conference June 2. “These two sister missions both aim to understand how...
Jun 8, 2021 · Similar to the Magellan spacecraft, DAVINCI+ will plunge through Venus’ atmosphere after flying by the planet twice to capture a time-lapse of the planet’s clouds.
DAVINCI will study Venus from its clouds down to the planet's surface – the first mission to study Venus using both flybys and a descent probe. It joins the VERITAS mission as the first NASA spacecraft to explore Earth's sister planet Venus since the 1990s.
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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...
