Report for the period 15 January to 4 February 2012
This reporting period covers three weeks of Venus Express operations, from 15 January to 4 February 2012. It covers routine planned operations at moderate but increasing telemetry downlink data rates, the seventh Atmospheric Drag Experiment campaign, and the raising of pericentre at the end of the campaign.
Mission operations of the Herschel space observatory continued nominally during the reporting period, with the spacecraft and subsystems all performing as expected.