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Rocket issues delay 1st-ever private mission to Venus: 'We are awaiting Neutron readiness'

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Rocket issues delay 1st-ever private mission to Venus: 'We are awaiting Neutron readiness'
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The future of a privately backed robotic mission Venus seems about as cloudy as the planet itself at the moment.Scientists based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are working with the California-based company Rocket Lab to search for possible signs of life on Venus. The first step in that program is the Rocket Lab Mission to Venus, which will deploy a small, nose cone-like probe crafted to sample the Venusian atmosphere using a device called an autofluorescence nephelometer (AFN

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