Yes. RocketLab recently announced they'll be sending a mission to Venus. Privately funded, and the details will be announced shortly. https://www.reddit.com/r/RocketLab/comments/g8bxmy/rocket_la... In 2023: https://www.space.com/rocket-lab-private-venus-mission-2023....

I have to wonder if they had contact with these MIT scientists pre-publication and that's what partially spurred this mission.

(RocketLab and Photon seem like a REALLY good platform for low-cost, small planetary missions like this. You can launch a mission for the price of a paper conceptual study and without the constraints of being a secondary payload, which is problematic for planetary missions with their narrow launch windows.)

Earlier this year, NASA selected two missions to Venus as finalists for the next Discovery-class mission, DAVINCI+ and VERITAS: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-selects-four-possibl...

It's unclear if these missions are currently designed to be able to detect phosphine though.

Scott Manley have an interesting video on the problems with exploring Venus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DEvcJgBy0c

Such a mission has to be undertaken with care. You don't want to become the next Venusian extinction event by mistake.

Or almost as concerning: you don’t want to be genesis on Venus before you have some answers.

Or alternatively, we deliberately infect it without athmosperic bacteria: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090318094642.h...

Which would be terrible... but true to our history when discovering new world.