discovery program
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‘The Nightmare Is Over’: NASA Resurrects VERITAS Mission to Venus
A long overdue mission to Venus is finally back on track after being put on hold due to budgeting and staffing issues at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). VERITAS, Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSAR, Topography, and Spectroscopy, made its way back onto NASA’s budget and is on schedule to launch in 2031, according to mission…
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NASA Asteroid Probe Snaps First Image, Revealing a Field of Stars
It departed our planet just over two months ago, but NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is already 16 million miles from Earth, well on its way to its main destination: the asteroid Psyche. Eager to prove its readiness, the spacecraft recently beamed back the first images captured by both of its cameras to create a tantalising mosaic…
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NASA’s Lucy Ready to Explore Its First Asteroid This Week
The probe will conduct a close flyby of asteroid Dinkinesh to test its instruments as it steadily makes its way towards Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids.
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NASA Fixes Psyche Spacecraft’s Thruster Issue Just in Time for Launch
NASA’s mission to a metal-rich asteroid is back on track after a minor setback. Psyche is now all set to launch on October 12. A week before the original scheduled launch, engineers discovered an issue with the Psyche spacecraft’s thrusters that could have caused it to overheat during its eight-year mission. As a result, NASA…