A space defense organization is gathering Scientific Society trying to revive NASA’s VERITAS mission to Venus, which was indefinitely delayed Because of personnel and budget issues at the space agency.
This week, the Planetary Society published a report open letter to call Congress For the 2029 launch date of the Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSAR, Topography and Spectroscopy (VERITAS) mission. The letter has already been signed by other organizations, incl American Geophysical Union, University of Alaska Fairbanks, and Mount Holyoke College. the The campaign also asks The public to contact their congressional representatives and raise awareness mission with the hashtag #SaveVERITAS.
VERITAS was originally scheduled to launch in 2027, but the launch of NASA planning to send a The spacecraft to Venus derailed when an independent review board came out Major revealed institutionAll the problems at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The board has been put together for checking breath delay a task to a metal-rich asteroid, which no longer had its August 2022 launch window, but instead revealed a host of problems beyond that mission. As a result, NASA decided to put VERITAS on hold.
release NASA’s 2024 budget proposal In March, Veritas’ unknown fate cemented it further, with the White House asking for $1.5 million for the mission instead of the expected $56.7 million. Planetary Society wrote in statement. The space agency subsequently removed all development funds for the foreseeable future, delaying the project indefinitely.
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The proposed amount of funding for VERITAS is “barely enough to keep us alive”, Darby Diar, Deputy Principal Investigator for the VERITAS mission, he told Gizmodo in a interview Last month. There is an open launch window for VERITAS in 2029. However, the VERITAS team will need funding at least five years before the mission’s expected launch to prepareThis is why it is important for the team to receive funding as part of the 2024 budget.
“We urge the committees to direct NASA to launch Veritas no later than November 2029 — a two-year delay — in NASA’s expected relicensing legislation,” the Planetary Society wrote. “A solid adherence to the launch date helps NASA plan and budget the project accordingly, assures our international and commercial partners, and underscores the United States’ commitment to world leadership in planetary exploration.”
NASA’s last mission to Venus, Magellan, reached the planet in 1989 and concluded science operations in 1994. Since then, NASA has not sent mission to the neighboring planet Earth, which is similar to Earth in size and composition (at Evil Twin type of road) It can help us learn more about our planet. Orbiter Veritas The mission will provide key data on Venus, the kind that NASA has missed for the past 30 years.
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