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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.
  1. 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.

  2. Dec 11, 2019 · Sue Smrekar really wants to go back to Venus. In her office at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, the planetary scientist displays a 30-year-old image of Venus’ surface taken by the Magellan spacecraft, a reminder of how much time has passed since an American mission orbited the planet.

  3. 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...

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    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.

  5. Jun 4, 2021 · After neglecting our sister planet for almost three decades, NASA is heading back to Venus — and in a big way. On Wednesday, June 2, NASA administrator Bill Nelson announced that the agency...

  6. Jun 2, 2021 · NASA will be heading back to Venus for the first time in decades. Two missions will explore the history of the planet's water and habitability. One of NASA’s next missions to Venus will...

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  8. Jun 14, 2021 · Two new NASA missions – VERITAS and DAVINCI+ – are headed to Venus. The missions will use radar and a probe to learn about Earth’s hard-to-study and potentially prophetic neighbor.

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