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30 Dec 2024
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launch status: TBD
🇳🇿 Electron – NZSA Venus Mission – Rocket Lab (Commercial) — Heliocentric N/A (Helio-N/A) — Planetary Science
Unknown Pad — Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand

NZSA Venus Mission is a small direct Venus entry probe with a single 1 kg low-mass, low-cost autofluorescing nephelometer riding on a satellite bus based on the Photon Upper stage of the Electron rocket.

The probe mission will spend approximately 5 minutes in the Venus cloud layers, 48-60 km above the surface, collecting in situ measurements to search for organic molecules in cloud particles and constrain particle composition.

May 2025
Month
launch status: TBD
🇨🇳 Long March 3B/E – Tianwen-2CASC (Government) — Asteroid (Asteroid) — Planetary Science
Unknown Pad — Xichang Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Tianwen-2 is a planned Chinese asteroid sample return and comet orbiter mission due for launch in May 2025. The spacecraft will visit the Near Earth asteroid 469219 Kamoʻoalewa (2016 HO3), collecting samples from its surface using both touch-and-go and anchor-and-drill approaches. It will return the samples back to Earth around 2.5 years after launch, with the main spacecraft proceeding to visit the main-belt comet 311P/PANSTARRS in the mid-2030s.