The first private spacecraft mission to Venus will combat the planet's hellish conditions with the aid of a novel woven heat shield called "HEEET." ...

“JPL was about to launch space probes toward Venus, and for that purpose it would be very useful to know where Venus actually was,” Golomb told me in a 2016 interview, shortly before his deat ...

Image: Laowa Venus Optics released a teaser of sorts in January for its first zoom probe lens, with a promised release date ...

The shield will be installed at the bottom of the probe, safeguarding its instruments ... missions targeting high-temperature planets like Venus. HEEET features a unique woven structure that ...

To prepare the 50-pound probe — which will also track weather ... the woman running the Venus Life Finder mission has suggested that private companies like Rocket Labs will be able to launch ...

On March 23, Venus will reach its inferior conjunction, or the point at which it lies directly between Earth and the sun. On this day, the sun's glare will make it almost impossible to see the planet.

The current record for a spacecraft’s survival on the surface of Venus is 127 minutes. Set 40 years ago by the Soviet Venera 13, it was a triumph of engineering. Still, two hours after touchdown ...

The Angara-A5 rocket will be used for the project. The mass of the space probe to Venus is estimated at 6.5 tonnes. Canadian response to American tariffs to have maximum impact in US — Carney On ...

Japan's Akatsuki spacecraft, meanwhile, failed in an attempt to orbit Venus in 2010 - but it might be able to try again in 2015. Moving further out to the second planet from the sun, Venus, ...

Engineers at NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley report progress in installing a heat shield on the first private spacecraft targeted for Venus. Rocket Lab of Long Beach ...

NASA's Small Spacecraft Technology program, part of the agency’s Space Technology Mission Directorate, supported the development of the heat shield for Rocket Lab’s Venus mission. HEET is a ...