“Together with the newly announced NASA-led Venus missions, we will have an extremely comprehensive science program at this enigmatic planet well into the next decade.”?

Around the same time as NASA’s VERITAS and DAVINCI+ missions, EnVision will also head to Venus to find out.

Just as NASA’s Venus missions came out of the Discovery program, which pits great spacecraft concepts against one another in a competition for funding, the EnVision orbiter was competing with Theseus (the Transient High-Energy Sky and Early Universe Surveyor) to get built.

Combined with NASA’s Discovery missions to Venus, the science community will have a powerful and synergistic set of new data to understand how Venus formed and how the surface and atmosphere changed over time.”.

The EnVision orbiter joins the Solar Orbiter, Euclid, Plato, and Ariel as active ESA missions.