Rocket Lab has postponed the start of the mission to search for traces of life on Venus

Rocket Lab plans to send a spacecraft to Venus that will search for life in the second

planet from the Sun. However, the company has already encountered problems and is forced to postpone the start of the mission.

What is known

Rocket Lab wants to fund the mission itself.The project involves sending the Photon apparatus to Venus, which will search for organic molecules at an altitude of about 50 km from the surface. The device has a diameter of only 40 cm. The probe will be sent into space by the Electron rocket. The flight to the neighboring planet will take six months.

The company planned to start the mission in the pastmonth. The new date has not yet been officially announced. But it is worth recalling that last summer there was information that the backup launch window would be available in January 2025.

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Venus attracted attention a few years ago,when a scientific article appeared that phosphine was contained in the atmosphere of the second planet from the Sun. This gas on Earth is produced by living organisms. Rocket Lab decided to try their luck, although the phosphine may have a different origin.