Leonardo is deploying the davinci-2 supercomputer upgrade to increase both computing power and storage capability in orbit.
The DAVINCI mission to Venus, scheduled to launch at the end of the decade, is on the cutting block due to budget cuts.
DAVINCI’s preferred launch date is December 2030 to perform two flybys before arriving in early 2033 to deposit an atmospheric probe at Venus.
e-GEOS will use Leonardo’s Davinci-1 high performance computing (HPC) system for the EGMS.
The 2022-level funding scenario would delay Mars Sample Return, DAVINCI, and Dragonfly and would cancel one Earth System Observatory mission while delaying three others.
The single SIMPLEx mission planned for solicitation would have a cost cap of $85,000,000 and would fly with the DAVINCI Venus mission in 2030.
VERITAS was selected in June 2021 as part of NASA’s Discovery program alongside the DAVINCI+ Venus mission.
Launch contracts for DAVINCI+ and VERITAS will be awarded later in each mission’s development.
NASA selected the DAVINCI+ and VERITAS missions in the Discovery program to launch to Venus in the late 2020s.
DAVINCI+ and VERITAS are expected to launch between 2028 and 2030.
Each of the DAVINCI+ and VERITAS missions has an estimated cost of $500,000,000.