GoKawiilNASA's DAVINCI Venus mission moved up to December 2030, VERITAS targets 2032
NASA has accelerated its DAVINCI atmospheric probe mission to Venus, now set for a December 2030 launch, a year earlier than previously scheduled. Its sister mission, the VERITAS orbiter, is slated to launch in November 2032, while ESA's EnVision orbiter is also planned for 2032, and Rocket Lab hopes to send a privately funded cloud-sampling probe as early as next year.
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These missions would mark the first wave of dedicated Venus exploration in decades, potentially yielding new surface imagery and atmospheric data not gathered since the early 1980s. The timeline has already been shaken by budget pressures that reportedly threatened one mission and forced NASA to withdraw from a hardware partnership on EnVision, suggesting that funding volatility could still affect these revised schedules.
- DAVINCI's launch moved up to December 2030, a year ahead of prior plans
- VERITAS orbiter targets a November 2032 launch to map Venus by radar
- Budget cuts previously delayed and threatened these missions, prompting NASA to drop a hardware role in ESA's EnVision project
Source: arstechnica.com, 2026-10-14
Published there as: “Things are finally looking up for NASA's first missions to Venus in a generation”
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