ESA Adds To New Venus Armada

A synthesized false color view of Venus taken by Japan’s Akatsuki spacecraft.
Credit: Planet-C Project Team/JAXA
CAPE CANAVERAL—The European Space Agency (ESA) has chosen its next medium-class space science mission—a Venus orbiter that will join a pair of NASA probes, selected last week to help resolve questions about why Earth’s sister planet evolved so differently. The ESA mission, called EnVision, is...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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