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๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฟRocket Lab plans late 2024 launch of Venus mission (spacenews.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Will this be the first privately funded and launched interplanetary space mission?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It seems like it might be. I suppose one could argue that the Falcon Heavy demo test flight could count as privately funded interplanetary mission, since its orbit crosses Mars' orbit, but it didn't go to Mars. There have also been a few interplanetary probes built by universities but launched by government agencies like NASA and JAXA.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Prepare for trouble and make it double