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No. 101 - Mission Progress

No. 101 - Mission Progress

Report for Period 14 October to 20 October 2007The Main activity during this week has been the entrance in Quadrature on the 19 October 2007. The procedure was fully automated as part of the routine plan following the experience of the previous quadrature. The fake ephemeris was again applied in GSP before the AOS inCebreros.

VIRTIS operations remained disabled during this period. The rest of observations took place routinely during this reporting period.

The table below shows a chronology of the main activities in the reporting period:

MET (Day) Date DOY Main Activity
705 14/10/07 287 Routine operations
706 15/10/07 288 Routine operations
707 16/10/07 289 Routine Operations.
708 17/10/07 290 Routine Operations
709 18/10/07 291 Routine Operations
710 19/10/07 292 Routine Operations & switch to quadrature operations
711 20/10/07 293 Routine Operations.

At the end of the last Cebreros pass in the reporting period (DOY 293, 18:00z) Venus Express was orbiting Venus at 94.6 million km from the Earth. The one-way signal travel time was 315 seconds.

Payload Activities

ASPERA
The instrument was operated as part of the routine plan.

MAG
The instrument was operated as part of the routine plan.

PFS
The instrument was not operated during the reporting period.

SPICAV
The instrument was operated as part of the routine plan.

VeRA
No RSI activities took place this week.

VIRTIS
The instrument was not operated during the reporting period. VMOC has completed the development of new procedures to operate the cooler motors of both the H and M units. All covers are closed and VIRTIS is in a safe state.

VMC
The instrument was operated as part of the routine plan.

Future Milestones

  • Swap to HGA1 – 29 October 2007
  • Restart of VIRTIS operations with new procedures
  • Release of new version of the SOIA to be applied for the mission extension.

Last Update: 1 September 2019
7-Dec-2024 15:29 UT

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