VERITAS and DAVINCI+ chosen and funded as part of agency s concept selection
Laura Dobberstein Thu 3 Jun 2021 // 13:40 UTC Share
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NASA announced yesterday that it will fund two new missions to Venus to study its atmosphere and topography, both chosen from the Discovery Program.
The two missions will seek to understand how Venus made the transition from a theoretically Earth-like climate to becoming the solar system’s hottest planet. Venus is often referred to as Earth s sister planet and shares a similar size, mass, position, and composition. It may provide hints toward Earth s far distant future.
The missions are the land-bound Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging (DAVINCI+) and the orbiting Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSAR, Topography, and Spectroscopy (VERITAS). Both were given a $500m budget and are slated for launch between 2028 and 2030.
Daily Times
June 3, 2021
WASHINGTON: NASA has announced two new missions to Venus which would aim to examine the planet’s atmosphere and geological conditions
The project is to launch in 2028 and 2030 with a funding of around $500m awarded to carry it out.
According to the NASA administrator Bill Nelson, this mission would give them a “chance to investigate a planet we haven’t been to in more than 30 years”. The last time the US carried out missions of any sort on Venus, (in this case with a probe) was in 1990. Europe and Japan on the other hand have orbited the planet since then.
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