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Nov 20, 2015 · The ESA/Venus Express mission spent more than 8 years in orbit around Venus to extensively study its atmosphere, ionosphere and plasma environment and unveil new aspects of its surface. Extensive reviews of the work of Venus Express are underway, to cover in-depth studies of the new face of Venus revealed by Venus Express and ground-based concurrent observations. This paper intends to give a ...
- Pierre Drossart, Franck Montmessin
- 2015
This paper summarizes the main results of the mission analysis of the 2005 launch window of Venus Express. The operational orbit is a polar eccentric orbit with about a 1 day period. The orbit is well suited to study the atmosphere, the plasma environment and for remote observations. The launch window using the Soyuz+Fregat launcher is
Mar 19, 2009 · [5] This paper describes the mission objectives of the Venus Express mission and gives an overview of the main features of the spacecraft, with emphasis on the differences compared to Mars Express, and the scientific instruments on board. It discusses the mission scenario and the operational orbit and the specific questions related to the choice of orbit and it gives an introduction to the ...
- H. Svedhem, D. V. Titov, F. W. Taylor, O. Witasse
- 60
- 2009
- 19 March 2009
Dec 17, 2008 · [6] The first results from the Venus Express mission were published in nine papers in the special section “Venus Express” in Nature, 450, 629–662, 2007. This special section contains original papers describing results and analysis of the observations during the whole nominal mission (4 June 2006 to 2 October 2007), along with supporting modeling efforts.
- D. V. Titov, F. W. Taylor, H. Svedhem
- 1
- 2008
- 17 December 2008
Feb 16, 2021 · The Venus Express Radio Science Experiment (VeRa) was part of the scientific payload of the Venus Express (VEX) spacecraft and was targeted at the investigation of Venus' atmosphere, surface, and gravity field as well as the interplanetary medium. This paper describes the methods and the required calibrations applied to VEX-VeRa raw radio occultation data used to retrieve vertical profiles of ...
- Edoardo Gramigna, Marzia Parisi, Dustin Buccino, Luis Gomez Casajus, Marco Zannoni, Paolo Tortora, K...
- 2021
Jun 21, 2009 · Venus Express is the first European (ESA) mission to the planet Venus. Its main science goal is to carry out a global survey of the atmosphere, the plasma environment, and the surface of Venus from orbit. The payload consists of seven experiments. It includes a powerful suite of remote sensing imagers and spectrometers, instruments for in-situ investigation of the circumplanetary plasma and ...
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