Humanity now has zero active robots at Venus as Japan ends 15-year ‘Dawn’ mission Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency has decided to abandon its Akatsuki Venus orbiter, after losing contact with the craft last year. JAXA launched Akatsuki, a name that translates to “Dawn” in English, aboard one of its own H-IIA rockets in May 2010. The agency’s plan was for the craft to enter Venus orbit in December of the …
> Humanity now has zero active robots at Venus as Japan ends 15-year ‘Dawn’ mission
Shurly on Venus?
Anything that makes it to the hellish surface of Venus doesn't remain active for long.
The planned MIT mission is only hoping for 5 minutes. I would think looking for life on the surface of Venus would be in the province of St Jude. The conditions are probably a bit too extreme even for extremophiles but I imagine any life, if any, would be found in the upper atmosphere.
Only vehicles in orbit around Venus have any hope of longevity hence the "at."
With the budget and personnel cuts to NASA by the Trump administration , i doubt anything will get sent to Venus. Science means nothing to that bunch of clowns. NASA can always hope the whole republican party gets smashed by an asteroid but reality is NASA is going to suffer for a long time of the damage already done. Elect a clown , get a circus !
