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The FY2024 budget request for VERITAS at $1.5M, released in March 2023, represented a near-complete freeze of the mission attested to be "functionally a soft cancellation". [13] This has been reverted in the FY24 bill released March 3, requesting NASA seek sufficient funding for the VERITAS Venus mission to enable a launch by the end of the decade.
VERITAS will return richly detailed radar maps of Venus' surface, vastly improving the resolution of maps made by the Magellan mission in the 1990s. From these data, scientists will make the first global, high-resolution maps of radar imagery and topography and the first maps of regions where geologic processes are actively deforming the surface in the present day.
Jun 2, 2021 · “We will become acquainted with a brand new Venus with VERITAS,” Byrne says. The missions are expected to launch sometime between 2028 and 2030, NASA said in a statement.
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. DAVINCI will study Venus in unprecedented detail from near the top of the clouds to the planet’s surface.
Mar 14, 2024 · VERITAS is back in the budget!! 🚀 ️ The project will get going full swing this fall (FY25). We’re looking at a 31 launch (TBC). Thanks to everyone who’s supported our return to Venus!!
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VERITAS and NASA’s DAVINCI mission will be the first U.S.-led missions to Venus since Magellan three decades ago. VERITAS will have a low, circular orbit around Venus, allowing its instruments to collect high-resolution, global maps of the hellish surface hidden beneath the clouds. Spacecraft The VERITAS spacecraft is a solar-powered Venus orbiter based on the […]
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Jun 4, 2021 · The news thrilled many in the planetary science community who have been clamoring for decades for NASA to return to Venus. The last NASA mission to target Earth’s sister planet was the Magellan ...