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StargazeInWonder
post Mar 15 2024, 04:11 AM
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Wonderful news.

As it stands, EnVision is also planned to launch in 2031, so we'll have the ludicrous circumstance that decades after the last radar-mapping mission to Venus, two will arrive at the same time. But better late than never and better two than one! (Three with the earlier arrival of Davinci.)
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post Mar 15 2024, 02:31 PM
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QUOTE (dtolman @ Mar 14 2024, 07:02 PM) *

There is an apparent cost: the launch of the DAVINCI mission has been delayed.

The budget request doesn't give a reason for the DAVINCI delay, but it may have been to free up a funding wedge for VERITAS.

Here is the language from the budget request:

"This budget supports the VERITAS mission to launch during an available Venus opportunity in
2031-2032. NASA reduced the future Discovery and Planetary SmallSat budgets which will delay the
release of the next Discovery and SIMPLEx AOs to no earlier than FY 2026. This budget also delays the
DAVINCI mission launch from 2029 to an available Venus opportunity in the 2031-2032 timeframe."

DAVINCI will release its probe on it's third encounter with Venus (the multiple encounters allow the probe to be targeted to the desired descent region).

I believe that VERITAS will enter orbit on its first Venus encounter, but there will be a delay to the prime mapping mission for an extended period of aerobraking. EnVision's prime mission will be delayed for the same reason.

For all three missions, it appears that their prime data collection will begin in the 2033-2035 period.


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post Mar 16 2024, 06:27 AM
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QUOTE (vjkane @ Mar 15 2024, 03:31 PM) *
The budget request doesn't give a reason for the DAVINCI delay, but it may have been to free up a funding wedge for VERITAS.

At the SMD Community Budget Town Hall meeting, Lori Glaze emphasized that the delay of DAVINCI is "purely a budget-driven decision".
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