Venus
DAVINCI
DAVINCI is NASA’s Venus mission that will descend through the atmosphere to measure composition, origin, evolution, and surface conditions.
Planned; NASA continues to frame DAVINCI as an early-2030s mission and has not published a committed launch date.
Official mission site ↗The mission
DAVINCI will send a carrier spacecraft and descent probe to Venus to investigate atmospheric composition, the planet’s origin and evolution, and surface conditions. NASA’s current mission page keeps the mission in an early-2030s planning window rather than a fixed launch commitment.
The launch
- Launch
- Early 2030s
- Launch location
- Not documented
- Launch vehicle
- Not documented
- Orbit
- Not documented
Mission timeline
NASA mission page
Current overview
NASA’s mission page describes DAVINCI and its early-2030s launch planning.
Open milestone source ↗Objectives
- 01
Measure Venusian atmospheric composition and isotopic signatures.
- 02
Constrain the origin and evolution of Venus’s atmosphere and climate.
- 03
Characterize conditions from the cloud tops to the surface.
Spacecraft
DAVINCI
Carrier spacecraft and descent probe designed to sample Venus’s atmosphere during descent.
- Manufacturer
- NASA / industry partners
Gallery
One image from DAVINCI.
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