Next time they should incorporate a cvd diamond heat spreader to iron out the kinks - By the time they get to orbit, all performance enhancing materials are cheap, and anything goes for planetary probes - a major engagement ring died to give Pioneer Venus a peep at the surface. (rabett.blogspot.ru)
In the agency's latest competition for future Discovery missions — its line of low - cost planetary probes — two out of five final candidates targeted Venus, including a mission Glaze would have led. (sciencemag.org)
That's «more than we've gotten back from any other planetary probe,» Mitchell says. (discovermagazine.com)