Venus Orbit Insertion
| Event | Spacecraft Time (UTC) |
Ground Receive Time (UTC) |
| VOI LSP start | 07:07:59 | 07:14:44 |
| VOI main engine start | 07:10:29 | 07:17:14 |
| Pericentre passage | 07:36:37 | |
| Eclipse start | 07:37:45 | |
| Occultation start | 07:38:27 | 07:45:12 |
| Occultation end | 07:48:33 | 07:55:18 |
| Eclipse end | 07:55:13 | |
| VOI burn end | 08:00:42 | 08:07:28 |
The main engine burn lasted around 50 minutes and decelerated the spacecraft by approximately 1251 ms-1 (~ 4500 kmh-1).
The spacecraft intially entered a highly elliptical polar orbit with a pericentre of 400 km, an apocentre of 350 000 km and a period of 9 days.
To achieve the final operational orbit a series of necessary correction manoeuvres was performed:
| Date | Activity | Velocity Change (m/s) |
| 15 April 2006 | Pericentre Control Manoeuvre #1 | 5.8 |
| 20 April 2006 | Apocentre Lowering Manoeuvre #1 | 199.9 |
| 23 April 2006 | Apocentre Lowering Manoeuvre #2 | 105.3 |
| 26 April 2006 | Apocentre Lowering Manoeuvre #3 | 9.2 |
| 29 April 2006 | Apocentre Lowering Manoeuvre #4 | 8.0 |
| 2 May 2006 | Apocentre Trim | 2.0 |
| 6 May 2006 | Pericentre Control Manoeuvre #2 | 3.1 |
Last Update: 1 September 2019
