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The first private spacecraft mission to Venus will combat the planet's hellish conditions with the aid of a novel woven heat shield called "HEEET." Engineers at NASA's Ames Research Center in ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A mock-up of the Soviet Union's Venera 7 probe, similar to Cosmos 482, a Venus probe that ...