No. 127 - Routine Operations
The table below shows a chronology of the main activities in the reporting period:
| MET (Day) | Date | DOY | Main Activity |
| 887 | 13/04/08 | 104 | Routine Operations |
| 888 | 14/04/08 | 105 | Routine Operations |
| 889 | 15/04/08 | 106 | Routine Operations. Shorter communications pass because of Cebreros Phoenix DDOR support |
| 890 | 16/04/08 | 107 | Routine Operations. Upload of new on-board control procedure to handle onboard enabling/disabling of telemetry routing to virtual channel zero (VC0) |
| 891 | 17/04/08 | 108 | Routine Operations |
| 892 | 18/04/08 | 109 | Routine Operations |
| 893 | 19/04/08 | 110 | Routine Operations |
At the end of the last Cebreros pass in the reporting period (DOY 110) Venus Express was orbiting Venus at 249 million km from the Earth. The one-way signal travel time was 830 seconds.
Payload Activities
ASPERA
The instrument was regularly operated as part of the routine plan.
MAG
The instrument was regularly operated as part of the routine plan.
PFS
The instrument was not operated during the reporting period.
SPICAV
The instrument was regularly operated as part of the routine plan.
VeRA
No observations were made during the reporting period.
VIRTIS
The instrument was regularly operated as part of the routine plan.
VMC
The instrument was regularly operated as part of the routine plan.
Future Milestones
- Operational usage of the newly uploaded on-board control procedure for the disabling of VC0 (for spacecraft housekeeping telemetry) routing outside visibility
- Release the HGA-1 S-band anomaly report
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