Spaceflight Company 'Rocket Lab' aims to launch private mission to Venus in 2023

California-based flight Company Rocket Lab recently joined hands with NASA for its first interplanetary mission. So far, Rocket Lab h only been able to put small craft into Earth's orbit, but w, it is aiming to go interplanetary. Rocket Lab’s Venus Mission is a robotic astrobiology mission that aims to find signs of life on Venus. In a recent Q&A session posted on company’s official YouTube channel, its founder and CEO Peter Beck said that he is mly in love with Venus. He furr revealed that at Rocket Lab, he is working hard to put toger a private mission to go to Venus in 2023.

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Is re life on Venus?

According to a report by .com, Venus h a temperate world in ancient past. planet h rivers, lakes, and even oceans, which h lasted for billions of years. However, all of this was lost when planet faced a climate-change disaster. A runaway Greenhouse Effect changed that planet’s surface. Venus's atmospheric pressures became crushing and temperatures became hot eugh to melt le.

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report furr mentions that if life on Venus still continued to exist, it may have found refuge in sky. Many scientists believe that re are habitable pockets in Venus' atmosphere. Hence, Venus’s aerial environment is what Rocket Lab 2023 mission intends to target.

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How will Rocket Lab conduct mission?

Rocket Lab’s 2023 mission will employ its two-st Electron booster and Photon satellite bus. Electron Booster is 57-foot or 17 metres tall. A Rocket Lab’s representative has stated that Electron is alrey capable of lifting up to 660 lbs. or 300 kilograms of paylo to low-Earth orbit. In a Twitter post on August 4, Peter Beck wrote that Photon Satellite is yet to make its flight debut, and will t be descending into Venus' sulfurous skies in coming mission. Rocket Lab’s current place is to deploy craft’s one or more smaller probes into planet's atmosphere.

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re is guarantee that life exists in Venusian clouds. However, Rocket Lab's Venus mission can potentially be a big game-changer. report states that company’s CEO has expressed hope that, along with NASA’s support Rocket Lab might be able to move bar on interplanetary travel high up. In upcoming years, re can be more missions dedicated to low-cost rides to a variety of distant destinations.