ISAS is currently trying to reestablish contact with its Venus probe.

We will inform you about future plans once they are fixed, the institute wrote on X.

Under these conditions, its hard to send a spacecraft to Venus surface.

An illustration of the Venus probe.

An illustration of the Venus probe.Illustration: NASA

It wasnt always smooth sailing though.

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