NASA's 'Return to Venus' initiative has hit a huge roadblock and the VERITAS mission has been delayed until at least the 2030s.
Published Mar 21st, 2023 4:16PM EDTEarth’s evil twin, Venus, has been the center of speculation for decades, despite a few missions to explore the earth-like planet. However, NASA’s planned “Return to Venus” has hit a major snag, and the VERITAS mission has been delayed.
NASA’s VERITAS mission, which is short for Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSAR, Topography, and Spectroscopy, was set to follow the agency’s DAVINCI mission and explore whether Venus has tectonic plates and establish if volcanos on the planet are still active. While DAVINCI is still on track to launch at the end of this decade, the VERITAS mission is delayed until sometime in the 2030s.
And, even then, there’s no set timeline on when NASA expects even to begin constructing the spacecraft needed for the mission. Unfortunately, this news comes just after evidence of was discovered using old data captured by NASA’s Magellan mission 30 years ago. The hope was that VERITAS would launch at the end of the 2020s and start providing data by the 2030s.
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