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NASA allocates funds for Venus mission

  • March 18, 2024
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The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration has received funding for a mission to VERITAS (Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSAR, Topography and Spectroscopy) mission to the second planet

NASA allocates funds for Venus mission

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration has received funding for a mission to VERITAS (Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSAR, Topography and Spectroscopy) mission to the second planet from the Sun. Its launch is planned for 2031.


The VERITAS mission was planned for 2027, but due to various financial problems and staff cuts at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the project had to be put on hold. Engineers learned that VERITAS was going to happen only after the final version of NASA’s budget was approved, but its launch was four years late.

The mission’s orbiter is designed to reveal many of the secrets of Venus. It will create high-resolution radar maps of the surface and provide information about the composition of rocks on the planet. The last mission to Venus, Magellan, ended in 1994.

Source: Port Altele

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