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ESA Builds Own Venus Radar After NASA Spent $50M and Still Cannot Deliver

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ESA EnVision Venus mission has launched a competitive European procurement for a new synthetic aperture radar after NASA confirmed it cannot deliver the VenSAR instrument due to budget cuts. Industrial teams in the UK and Italy are now racing to build a replacement planetary SAR before the mission's hard 2033 launch window closes permanently.

First report: Europe will go it alone on Venus mission after NASA yanks radar instrument — arstechnica.com, 4d