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Engineers of the AMES Research Center of NASA carry out a fit test of the two halves of a spatial capsule that examine the clouds of Venus for signs of life. | Credit: NASA/Brandon Torres Navarrete
The engineers of the AMES Research Center of NASA in the California Silicon Valley report progress in the installation of a heat sign on the first private spaceship that aims for Venus.
Rocket Lab from Long Beach, California, leads the efforts together with their partners at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (with) in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The NASA heat disc for the Extrem Entry Environment Technology (HEEEET) was invented in the NASA Ames Center.
The Small SpaceCraft technology program of NASA, part of the agency’s Space Technology Mission Directorates, supported the development of the heat sign for Venus mission from Rocket Lab.
Woven heat shield
Heet is a structured material that covers the bottom of the capsule, a woven heat plate, the spacecraft protects against temperatures up to 4,500 degrees Fahrenheit (2482 degrees Celsius).
The private Venus probe would be used from the photon spaceship bus from Rocket Lab.
An illustration shows the Rocket Lab Photon SpaceCraft over the clouds of Venus | Credit: rocket laboratory
Engineers of the AMES Research Center of NASA in the California Silicon Valley attach the Heet Heat Shield to the first private spaceship that is aimed for Venus. | Credit: NASA/Brandon Torres Navarrete
This probe will carry out measurements when it rises through the clouds of Venus.
“We missed our start window in January 2025 and are now waiting until the next summer of 2026,” said Sara Seaager, professor of planetary science and head of the Morningstar missions to the Venus team -a number of planned missions to examine the possibility of life in Venus’ cloud.
The scientific phase of the Rocket Lab Mission to Venus aims at the Venus -Cloud layer between 72 and 97 miles and enables around 330 seconds of scientific observations. | Credit: NASA/AMES Research Center
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The first mission, a collaboration with Rocket Lab, is the small, inexpensive probe for measuring the car fluorescence and the back -controlled polarized radiation in order to recognize the presence of organic molecules in the clouds.
This spaceship now runs instead of an electron thrower on Rocket Labs not yet flying neutron amplifiers.
“On my side we have completed the instrument construction and had our first integration tests with the probe, the part that is dropped into the Venus atmosphere. Everything goes on,” said Seaager.
