#Venus: Rocket Lab postpones a Mission to the Clouds of Venus. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
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🗓️ 27 July 2023
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#Venus: Rocket Lab postpones a Mission to the Clouds of Venus. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/rocket-lab-delays-its-private-mission-to-venus-two-years-to-25/
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| 0:07.3 | That's why we and London boroughs are lowering more speed limits to 20mph. |
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| 0:24.8 | Such TFL improvement plan to the Mayor of London and TFL every journey matters. |
| 0:35.1 | This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Bachel from the surface of the planet Earth. We're headed to |
| 0:40.3 | Venus, but not yet. This is private space and a mission to Venus is now delayed. |
| 0:46.4 | Whose mission Bob and why delay? |
| 0:49.6 | The mission is a private mission. It is a private mission that was proposed by Rocket Lab. |
| 0:54.8 | They are one of the small-sat rocket companies. The most successful small-sat rocket company. |
| 0:59.9 | They proposed to use their electron rocket and their photon |
| 1:06.8 | upper stage designed for planetary missions. It was used for capstone to get capstone to the |
| 1:12.6 | lunar orbit. They proposed putting those together and launching their own probe, Venus, |
| 1:19.0 | orbiter, and they were going to launch it in the launch window that is this year. |
| 1:23.7 | And sometimes about a month ago, they very quietly delayed it. |
| 1:29.2 | We scheduled to the next launch window in two years in 2025. |
| 1:33.2 | And I saw an article about this and posted it on by the board today because I hadn't known it |
| 1:37.6 | made that decision. But the reason they made decision was not technical. There was nothing wrong |
| 1:42.3 | apparently with the mission. They said it was a business decision. They want to focus more |
| 1:48.8 | right now. The demand for their rockets is high enough that rather than spend the rocket on a |
| 1:54.1 | private mission mostly for science and public relations, they wouldn't get any profit. |
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