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Nov 9, 2005 · In Depth: Venus Express. ESA's Venus Express was designed to study the atmosphere of Venus, its plasma environment and surface characteristics from a 24-hour near-polar elliptical orbit. The spacecraft was launched by a Soyuz-FG/Fregat combination owned by Starsem, a French company which markets a European version of the Russian Soyuz.
- United States of America (USA)
- VEX
- Venus Orbit
- 2,800 pounds (1,270 kilograms)
Venus Express. Venus Express (VEX) was the first Venus exploration mission of the European Space Agency (ESA). Launched in November 2005, it arrived at Venus in April 2006 and began continuously sending back science data from its polar orbit around Venus. Equipped with seven scientific instruments, the main objective of the mission was the long ...
Venus Express was captured into an orbit around Venus by firing the main engine for 53 minutes. About five days later, a two-week long series of manoeuvres began putting the spacecraft into its operational orbit, circling above the poles of the planet once every 24 hours.
Oct 7, 2010 · Venus Express went diving into the alien atmosphere during a series of low passes in July–August 2008, October 2009, and February and April 2010. The aim was to measure the density of the upper polar atmosphere, an experiment that had never been attempted before at Venus.
Nov 28, 2007 · The restless atmosphere of Venus. Venus Express has studied the true extent of Venus’s restless atmosphere. This includes the planet’s glow, its highly variable south polar vortex and the dynamic upper atmosphere, different from what is seen on any other rocky planet of the Solar System. Venus’ faint glow of light coming from molecules in ...
Nov 10, 2020 · A mission of discovery. Venus Express was launched from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on 9 November 2005. It arrived at Venus on 11 April 2006 and braked into a highly elliptical (250 × 66 000 km), near-polar orbit which was specifically chosen to ensure the maximum scientific return. The orbit was 'locked' in space, with respect to the ...
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Sep 1, 2019 · Venturing into the upper atmosphere of Venus. As the end of its eight-year adventure at Venus edges ever closer, ESA scientists have been taking a calculated risk with the Venus Express spacecraft in order to carry out unique observations of the planet's rarefied outer atmosphere. First results from this aerobraking campaign were reported today ...
