Venus Express Status Report - November 2006
Payload and spacecraft operations have been running smoothly despite of four spacecraft safe mode entries since end of August. Their impact has been minimal, with the spacecraft back in nominal science mode within hours of each event.
Operations and Archiving
All instruments are performing nominally except PFS for which recovery measures are being discussed and tested.
Science Highlights
Results from the mission were presented at the Europlanet Science Conference in Berlin, 17-22 September. A joint publication of these results in Nature is under preparation.
Editor's note
This report was prepared on 13 October 2006, and presented to the SPC on 7-8 November 2006.
Last Update: 1 September 2019