GreenbeltDAVINCI launches in December 2030, a year early.
It will return the first direct images of Venus’s surface since 1982.
NASA dropped its EnVision radar contribution and cancelled Mars Sample Return, freeing money for both missions.
The Trump administration has twice proposed deep cuts to planetary science, and Congress restored most of the 2026 funding.
DAVINCI’s probe descends on 3 October 2032, and VERITAS launches the following month.
How each outlet framed it
- Ars Technica
- details DAVINCI's launch moved a year earlier to December 2030 and Rocket Lab's privately funded cloud-organics probe
Sources: Ars Technica