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Venus Life Finder. 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]
- A Long-Held Dream
- The Plan
- An Exploration Campaign?
Beck has long wanted to help explore Venus, which he thinks has not yet received the scientific attention it deserves. "Venus is well and truly undervalued," he said. Venus was once a temperate world like Earth, with plentiful surface water— including, many scientists believe, large oceans that may have persisted for much of the planet's 4.5-billio...
The coming Venus mission will employ two pieces of Rocket Lab hardware — the 57-foot-tall (17 meters) Electron booster, which has been launching small satellites to orbit since early 2018, and the Photon satellite bus, which made its spaceflight debuton an Electron mission late last month. A Photon will launch atop an Electron, then make its way to...
Rocket Lab's Venus plans were in the works long before the company started talking to Seager and her colleagues, Beck said. The phosphine detection didn't change much, apart from strengthening his resolve and boosting his optimism. "I thought the probability of finding something interesting was incredibly low, whereas now I think that the probabili...
Aug 29, 2022 · The first private mission to Venus will have just five minutes to hunt for life Launching as soon as next year, Rocket Lab’s low-cost mission will be brief, but it could transform the search for ...
- Jonathan O'callaghan
In September 2020, scientists at MIT and Cardiff University announced they had observed what may be signs of life in the clouds of our planetary neighbor, Venus. Their observations indicated the potential presence of phosphine, a gas typically produced by living organisms. In 2023, Rocket Lab is sending the first private mission to Venus to help gather further evidence. The goal, using an ...
Rocket Lab’s Venus Life Finder mission will launch aboard the company’s Electron rocket. Electron is a small launch vehicle that can carry 300 kilograms (660 pounds) to Earth orbit. The 18-meter-tall (59-feet-tall) rocket is scheduled to blast off in May 2023 from the company’s Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand.
Nov 2, 2023 · Rocket Lab's mission to Venus, which aims to investigate the potential for life high in the planet's atmosphere, could launch as soon as Dec. 30, 2024. ... The 695-pound (315 kilograms) Venus Life ...
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Dec 10, 2021 · Gizmodo reporter George Dvorsky spotlights the Venus Life Finder mission, developed by researchers from MIT and Rocket Lab, which will be launching no earlier than December 2024. “The mission will send a small probe, equipped with a single science instrument, to analyze organic molecules and potential signs of life in the Venusian atmosphere,” writes Dvorsky.
