The private company is self-funding the ambitious science mission. The effort will likely inform future attempts to commercialize deep space. Reading time 4 minutes SpaceX might have its sights set on ...

Rocket Lab now expects to launch a privately funded mission to Venus at the end of 2024, arriving at the planet in May 2025. Credit: Rocket Lab Updated Oct. 31 to clarify launch period. WASHINGTON — ...

While for decades Mars has been the planet outside Earth that has arguably received the most attention, in recent years, planetary scientists have been setting their sites on our other neighbor: Venus ...

Last year, Rocket Lab announced that it would embark on an ambitious mission to send a small probe to Venus to hunt for organic molecules in its atmosphere. The launch was supposed to happen in May ...

The supposed mission by Rocket Lab to Venus did not take place for its supposed flight last month, and now, new developments arise saying that the mission would take place no earlier than 2025. Its ...

Image: Rocket Lab’s Electron-launched private mission to Venus will deploy a small probe from a high-energy Photon. Regular, low-cost Decadal-class science missions to planetary destinations will be ...

Rocket Lab wants to go to Venus, and it’s building a rocket that could fuel its goals. Earlier this month, the New Zealand-founded company with US headquarters in Long Beach, California, unveiled its ...

One benefit of the commercial space launch revolution has been the lower cost of planetary missions. Launch systems such as the SpaceX Falcon 9 have enabled public-private partnerships such as the ...