Los Angeles - US space agency Nasa announced plans on Wednesday night to launch a pair of missions to Venus between 2028 and 2030 - its first in decades - to study the atmosphere and geologic features of Earth's so-called sister planet and better understand why the two emerged so differently. DAVINCI will measure the composition of the dense, hothouse …
On 14 September, the entire world was waiting for the Royal Astronomical Society’s impending announcement on Venus. One proposed mission is India’s Shukrayaan-1—an Indian Space Research Organisation orbiter that will aim to study the planet’s surface and atmosphere. According to an official statement, the VERITAS spacecraft, proposed for a 2026 launch, would orbit Venus and peer through the planet’s obscuring …
