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Akatsuki: The Venus mission that cheated death and made history

Japan’s Akatsuki spacecraft was never supposed to survive. After a failed Venus orbit insertion in 2010, it drifted through ...
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Exploring Venus with NASA's DAVINCI mission

NASA Deep Atmosphere of Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging” (DAVINCI) will launch to Venus in 2029 ...
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Venus may get a huge meteor shower this July, thanks to a long-ago asteroid breakup

This coming July, Venus could plow through the dust generated by an asteroid breakup thousands of years ago, potentially ...
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NASA and Beyond: 5 Upcoming Missions to Explore Mysterious Venus

Venus, long called Earth's 'evil twin' for its toxic clouds and crushing heat, is drawing fresh global attention. After decades of neglect, five major missions from NASA, ESA, ISRO and Roscosmos are ...
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Last Venus Spacecraft Goes Dark, Leaving No Active Human-Made Presence

After a year of attempting contact, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced Tuesday that its Akatsuki Venus climate orbiter spacecraft has died and is no longer responsive. This was ...
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Discovering Venus on Iceland

Scientists trekked across Icelandic lava flows that served as stand-ins for Venus’s volcanic landscapes, testing tools and ...
TASS

Russia embarks on project of first Venus mission since Soviet era

MOSCOW, March 4. /TASS/. Russia begins designing the Venus-D automatic interplanetary station, Russian Academy of Sciences’ (RAS) Space Research Institute head Lev Zelyony said, adding that ...