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Report for Period 17 October to 30 October 2009The reporting period covers two weeks of the navigation campaign leading to Rosetta's third Earth swingby on 13 November. The campaign's primary trajectory correction manoeuvre was successfully executed on DoY 295 to set the spacecraft onto the right path for the Earth swingby.
Published: 4 November 2009
Report for Period 18 October to 24 October 2009The 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.
Published: 28 October 2009
Report for period 23 September to 21 October 2009Mission operations of the Herschel space observatory continued nominally during the reporting period, with the spacecraft and subsystems all performing as expected. Investigations for the recovery of the HIFI instrument are progressing well, and a plan for switching on the instrument's back-up...
Published: 25 October 2009
Report for Period 11 October to 17 October 2009The Venus Express spacecraft and instruments performed nominally during this week. A series of atmospheric drag experiments has been completed in the reporting period.
Published: 21 October 2009
Report for Period 3 October to 16 October 2009The remaining activities of the payload check-out 10 (PC10) have been conducted in the reporting period, along with spacecraft maintenance activities. The reporting period also covers the first two weeks of the navigation campaign leading to Rosetta's third Earth swing-by on 13 November.
Published: 21 October 2009
Report for Period 4 October to 10 October 2009The Venus Express spacecraft and instruments performed nominally during this week.
Published: 14 October 2009
Report for Period 27 September to 3 October 2009The Venus Express spacecraft and instruments performed nominally during this week. On DOY 271 the regular DDOR measurements were performed.
Published: 7 October 2009
Report for Period 26 September to 2 October 2009The reporting period covers the second week of the payload check-out 10 (PC10). Instruments were activated, tested, and calibrated and software updated as planned. Both the spacecraft and the ground segment are behaving nominally.
Published: 7 October 2009
Main events and activitiesThe Mars Express Science Working Team has decided on a final orbit change to 88:25 resonance in March 2010, after one month on a 131:37 intermediate orbit to secure a Phobos observation campaign.
Published: 6 October 2009
Report for Period 19 September to 25 September 2009The reporting period covers the first week of the payload check-out 10 (PC10). The spacecraft activities were conducted according to plan. Instruments are being activated, tested, and calibrated and software updated as planned. Both the spacecraft and the ground segment are behaving nominally.
Published: 30 September 2009
Report for Period 20 September to 26 September 2009The Venus Express spacecraft and instruments performed nominally during this week.
Published: 30 September 2009
Report for Period 22 August to 18 September 2009The reporting period covers four weeks of operations during which the spacecraft was reconfigured from passive to active cruise mode, following the exit out of Near Sun Hibernation Mode (NSHM) on DOY251. With the mission's last planned near Sun hibernation phase completed, the spacecraft activities...
Published: 23 September 2009
Report for Period 13 September to 19 September 2009The 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.
Published: 23 September 2009
Report for Period 6 September to 12 September 2009The 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.
Published: 16 September 2009
Report for Period 30 August to 5 September 2009The 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.
Published: 9 September 2009
Report for Period 23 August to 29 August 2009The 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.
Published: 2 September 2009
Report for Period 16 August to 22 August 2009The 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.
Published: 26 August 2009
Report for Period 25 July to 21 August 2009The reporting period covers four weeks in the passive cruise phase #6, which started on 2 April. During this phase the Rosetta spacecraft is configured in Near Sun Hibernation Mode (NSHM) and will remain so until beginning of September. During the reporting period the performance of the spacecraft and...
Published: 25 August 2009
Report for Period 9 August to 15 August 2009The 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.
Published: 19 August 2009
Report for Period 2 August to 8 August 2009The 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.
Published: 12 August 2009
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