Venus Life Finder
Venus Life Finder is Rocket Lab's planned first private mission to Venus and the first flight in the MIT-led Venus Morning Star science campaign. Electron will launch a Rocket Lab Explorer interplanetary spacecraft, which will release a small HEEET-protected atmospheric probe carrying an autofluorescence nephelometer to search Venus's temperate cloud layer for complex organic chemistry. Rocket Lab's current mission page publishes no launch date or launch site, so stale 2023-2025 targets and the old Launch Complex 1 concept are not represented as current commitments.
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Identity
- Aliases
- Rocket Lab Mission to VenusFirst Private Mission to VenusVenus Lifefinder Mission
- Name
- Venus Life Finder
- Status
- planned
Details
- Astronauts
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- Description
- Venus Life Finder is Rocket Lab's planned first private mission to Venus and the first flight in the MIT-led Venus Morning Star science campaign. Electron will launch a Rocket Lab Explorer interplanetary spacecraft, which will release a small HEEET-protected atmospheric probe carrying an autofluorescence nephelometer to search Venus's temperate cloud layer for complex organic chemistry. Rocket Lab's current mission page publishes no launch date or launch site, so stale 2023-2025 targets and the old Launch Complex 1 concept are not represented as current commitments.
- Outcome
- Planned. The atmospheric flight capsule reached a documented heat-shield fit-check milestone at NASA Ames in 2025. The mission remains listed by Rocket Lab, but its current official page does not publish an exact launch date, window, or launch site.
- Program
- Venus Morning Star Missions
- Vehicle Families
Links
- Wikipedia Url
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_Life_Finder
Assets & Meta
- Creation Time
- April 26, 2026 at 14:53:08 UTC
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- Updated Time
- July 19, 2026 at 02:38:40 UTC
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