NZSA Venus Mission
Neutron, Rocket Lab
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 3 (Launch Area 0 D), Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA
Launch time
No earlier than
NET 2027
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Mission
NZSA Venus Mission on Neutron from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 3 (Launch Area 0 D). Launch time, status and recorded date changes from Launch Library 2.
NZSA Venus Mission is a small direct Venus entry probe with a single 1 kg low-mass, low-cost autofluorescing nephelometer riding on a satellite bus based on the Photon Upper stage of the Electron rocket. The probe mission will spend approximately 5 minutes in the Venus cloud layers, 48-60 km above the surface, collecting in situ measurements to search for organic molecules in cloud particles and constrain particle composition.
- Mission type
- Planetary Science
- Orbit
- Heliocentric N/A
Launch timeline
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Launch pad
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 3 (Launch Area 0 D)
Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA (US)
Coordinates: 37.8321693, -75.4899046
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