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Nov 9, 2005 · The Venus Express spacecraft was a virtual twin of Mars Express. The spacecraft body itself, termed a 'bus', is a honeycomb aluminium box about 1.7 m wide, 1.4m height. With its solar arrays extended, it measures about 8 m across.
- Soyuz-Fregat Carrying Venus Express Lifts Off
The Soyuz FG-Fregat vehicle carrying Venus Express, ESA's...
- Venus Express Orbit Insertion
Animation of the Venus Express orbit insertion around planet...
- Cebreros During Commissioning
ESA's new 35-metre deep-space dish antenna, located at...
- Focus on Venus Express Science Operations Centre Open
AO for Interdisciplinary Scientist in the Comet Interceptor...
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Thanks to a set of state-of-the-art instruments for...
- This Mission Uses Scos-2000
This mission uses SCOS-2000, the European standard mission...
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The Cebreros station, DSA 2 (Deep Space Antenna 2), is...
- Soyuz-Fregat Carrying Venus Express Lifts Off
Oct 9, 2024 · 1356 Results for Mission: “Mars Express” in Images.
1 day ago · Since beginning science operations in 2004, Mars Express has provided breathtaking views of Mars in three dimensions. It has provided the most complete map of the chemical composition of the atmosphere, studied Mars’s innermost moon Phobos in unprecedented detail, and traced the history of water across the globe, demonstrating that Mars once ...
Venus Express is ESA's first mission to Earth's nearest planetary neighbour, Venus. The mission was born after ESA asked for proposals, in March 2001, suggesting how to reuse the design of the Mars Express spacecraft. The guidelines were extremely strict.
Nov 10, 2020 · ESA's first mission to Venus began in March 2001, with a call for ideas from the scientific community on how best to reuse the spacecraft platform developed for Mars Express.
Nov 9, 2005 · What was Venus Express? Venus Express was the first European spacecraft to orbit Venus. The original mission was expected to last no more than 500 Earth days, but the mission was extended five times.
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Sep 1, 2019 · Aptly given the name Mars Express, it was developed more quickly, and at a much lower cost, than any similar missions developed up to that time. So successful was the design concept that a similar spacecraft, Venus Express, was later sent to the second planet from the Sun.
