| No. 209 - Mission Operations Update |
Report for Period 8 November to 14 November 2009 The Venus Express spacecraft and instruments performed nominally during this week. Routine maintenance was carried out at the Cebreros ground station on 10 and 11 November.
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| Date: 18 Nov 2009 |
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| No. 208 - Mission Operations Update |
Report for Period 1 November to 7 November 2009 The Venus Express spacecraft and instruments performed nominally during this week.
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| Date: 11 Nov 2009 |
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| No. 207 - Mission Operations Update |
Report for Period 25 October to 31 October 2009 The Venus Express spacecraft and instruments performed nominally during this week. |
| Date: 04 Nov 2009 |
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| No. 206 - Orbit control manoeuvres |
Report for Period 18 October to 24 October 2009 The Venus Express spacecraft and instruments performed nominally during this week. Two orbit control manoeuvres were successfully performed; one to lower the orbit's apocentre altitude and one to raise the pericentre altitude. On DOY 293 the regular DDOR measurements were performed. |
| Date: 28 Oct 2009 |
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| No. 205 - Atmospheric drag experiments |
Report for Period 11 October to 17 October 2009 The Venus Express spacecraft and instruments performed nominally during this week.
A series of atmospheric drag experiments has been completed in the reporting period. |
| Date: 21 Oct 2009 |
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| No. 204 - Mission Operations Update |
Report for Period 4 October to 10 October 2009 The Venus Express spacecraft and instruments performed nominally during this week.
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| Date: 14 Oct 2009 |
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| No. 203 - Mission Operations Update |
Report for Period 27 September to 3 October 2009 The Venus Express spacecraft and instruments performed nominally during this week. On DOY 271 the regular DDOR measurements were performed. |
| Date: 07 Oct 2009 |
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| No. 202 - Mission Operations Update |
Report for Period 20 September to 26 September 2009 The Venus Express spacecraft and instruments performed nominally during this week. |
| Date: 30 Sep 2009 |
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| No. 201 - End of Earth Occultation Season #7 |
Report for Period 13 September to 19 September 2009 The Venus Express spacecraft and instruments performed nominally during this week. The seventh Earth occultation season concluded this week, with the last five observations in the series carried out in this reporting period. |
| Date: 23 Sep 2009 |
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| No. 200 - Earth Occultation Season #7 |
Report for Period 6 September to 12 September 2009 The Venus Express spacecraft and instruments performed nominally during this week. The seventh Earth occultation season is ongoing, with three observations carried out in this reporting period. |
| Date: 16 Sep 2009 |
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| No. 199 - Earth Occultation Season #7 |
Report for Period 30 August to 5 September 2009 The Venus Express spacecraft and instruments performed nominally during this week. The seventh Earth occultation season is ongoing, with five observations carried out in this reporting period. |
| Date: 09 Sep 2009 |
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| No. 198 - Earth Occultation Season #7 |
Report for Period 23 August to 29 August 2009 The Venus Express spacecraft and instruments performed nominally during this week. The seventh Earth occultation season is ongoing, with three observations carried out in this reporting period. |
| Date: 02 Sep 2009 |
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| No. 197 - Earth Occultation Season #7 |
Report for Period 16 August to 22 August 2009 The Venus Express spacecraft and instruments performed nominally during this week. The seventh Earth occultation season is ongoing, with two observations carried out in this reporting period. |
| Date: 26 Aug 2009 |
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| No. 196 - Earth Occultation Season #7 |
Report for Period 9 August to 15 August 2009
The Venus Express spacecraft and instruments performed nominally during this week. The seventh Earth occultation season is ongoing, with two observations carried out in this reporting period. On DOY 224 the regular DDOR measurements were performed. |
| Date: 19 Aug 2009 |
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| No. 195 - Earth Occultation Season #7 |
Report for Period 2 August to 8 August 2009 The Venus Express spacecraft and instruments performed nominally during this week. The seventh Earth occultation season is ongoing, with three observations carried out in this reporting period. |
| Date: 12 Aug 2009 |
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| No. 194 - Earth Occultation Season #7 |
Report for Period 26 July to 1 August 2009 The Venus Express spacecraft and instruments performed nominally during this week.
The seventh Earth occultation season is ongoing, with three observations performed in this reporting period. An orbit control manoeuvre (OCM) was carried out in the night of 25-26 July between 23:06 and 02:07 UT. This manoeuvre constitutes a phase correction to keep the phasing of Venus Express in its orbit in sync with mission operations from ground. |
| Date: 05 Aug 2009 |
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| No. 193 - Earth Occultation Season #7 |
Report for Period 19 July to 25 July 2009 The Venus Express spacecraft and instruments performed nominally during this week. The seventh Earth occultation season is ongoing, with six observations carried out in this reporting period. On DOY 206 the regular DDOR measurements were performed. |
| Date: 29 Jul 2009 |
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| No. 192 - Start of Earth Occultation Season #7 |
Report for Period 12 July to 18 July 2009 The Venus Express spacecraft and instruments performed nominally during this week. The mission's seventh season of Earth occultation experiments started on 16 July 2009. |
| Date: 22 Jul 2009 |
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| No. 191 - Mission Operations Report |
Report for Period 5 July to 11 July 2009 The Venus Express spacecraft and instruments performed nominally during this week. |
| Date: 15 Jul 2009 |
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| No. 190 - End of Quadrature Phase |
Report for Period 28 June to 4 July 2009 The Venus Express spacecraft and instruments performed nominally during the last week of quadrature operations. The spacecraft remained in quadrature configuration until 3 July, DOY 185. As part of the quadrature operations the Venus Express spacecraft flew a tilted attitude during Earth contact with the Cebreros ground station. The 10° attitude tilt with respect to the non-quadrature Earth pointing attitude requires an extended cool-down period for the spacecraft afterwards, before resuming with science pointings. As a result, Cebreros passes - each lasting about 8 hours and nominally performed once every 24-hour orbit - were routinely skipped to allow more time for science pointings. Only four passes were performed in this reporting period as opposed to the usual seven daily passes. |
| Date: 08 Jul 2009 |
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