Things are finally looking up for NASA's first missions to Venus in a generation
"This is great news for us. We're staffing up. We're accelerating."
Single source
No other outlet followed by Zonactu reports this story yet.
At the same time NASA slowed the development of VERITAS, it was committed to providing a radar instrument to the European Space Agency for the Envision mission, an orbiter with similar goals as VERITAS.
NASA’s contribution to Envision was put in question by the Trump administration last year, and Ars reported in September that ESA was moving ahead with a European-built radar for Envision after NASA pulled out of the agreement. Nick Lang, a program scientist in NASA’s planetary science division, confirmed this at last week’s VEXAG meeting, citing limitations in NASA’s budget. “That decision was…
