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Report for Period 17 February to 23 February 2006After the successful calibration test of the Main Engine flight activities have focused onpayloads check-out activities. The ground segment and...

The System Verification Test 2 was started yesterday with a successful test of the launch sequence and initial control acquisition of the satellite by ESOC. This series of activities mimics very...

The installation of the High Gain Antenna 1 during final prepartions for vibration testing of the spacecraft.

Report for Period 7 June to 13 June 2009The Venus Express spacecraft and instruments performed nominally during this week of quadrature operations. The swap from High Gain Antenna 2 (HGA2) to HGA1...

Global Dynamics of Venus's Northern Hemisphere - greyscale

Report for Period 9 July to 15 July 2006 During the reporting period the mission operations have been conducted according to plan. The spacecraft performance was nominal throughout the reporting...

VIRTIS: Spectrographic Mapper at IASF This page provides a link to http://venus-express.artov.rm.cnr.it ...

This Magellan radar image shows a type of volcanic feature known as a "tick", located northeast of Alpha Regio on Venus. These features are characterized by a caldera within a...

Report for Period 1 November to 7 November 2009The Venus Express spacecraft and instruments performed nominally during this week.

Report for Period 8 November to 14 November 2009The Venus Express spacecraft and instruments performed nominally during this week. Routine maintenance was carried out at the Cebreros ground station...

Testing the deployment of the solar arrays.

Report for Period 31 May to 6 June 2009The Venus Express spacecraft and instruments performed nominally during this week of quadrature operations. The spacecraft entered the current quadrature...

Report for Period 28 February to 27 March 2010 (week 9 - week 12)The Venus Express spacecraft and instruments performed nominally during the reporting period. The atmospheric drag experiment (ADE)...

Venus Express in Solar Simulator

Announcement of Opportunity for the selection of Co-Investigators for the PFS and VIRTIS experiments to be flown on the Venus Express mission.

The rollout of the Soyuz launcher carrying the Venus Express Spacecraft has taken place at launch pad number 6 of the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Saturday 5 November 2005 starting at 01:30 UT (07:30...

On Friday 4 November the final integration of the Soyuz launch vehicle with the Venus Express Spacecraft atop has taken place in the MIK-40 integration building. The launch vehicle and its...

Integrated object from sci2. Original location:http://sci.esa.int/venusexpress/docs/venusexpress_ao.pdf

The Venus Express spacecraft is entering the final stages of testing as its launch date in October approaches.Following a successful test of the solar panel deployment the spacecraft is now being...

Preparing the shaker platform for vibration testing of Venus Express in Intespace, January 2005. The image show the Launch Vehicle Adapter (LVA) being mounted.

Inspection of Upper Composite

The Venus Express, showing the cryogenic radiator side of the spacecraft, undergoing final checks prior to its move to Baikonur in early August.

A major milestone in the life of Venus Express occurred on 1 July in ESTEC, Noordwijk, with the completion of the Flight Acceptance Review Board meeting. Activities are now concentrated on...

On 20 October 2005, electrical verifications between the launcher's third stage and the upper composite were performed which were mechanically mated the day before.

Report for Period 25 October to 31 October 2009The Venus Express spacecraft and instruments performed nominally during this week.

Magellan radar image of tick volcano (NSSDC image catalogue) This page provides a link to ...

The concept for control of the Venus Express mission is based on the use of a single control centre, the Venus Express Mission Operations Centre (VMOC) at ESOC, Germany, in conjunction with the ESA...

The Venus Express spacecraft with its solar arrays deployed.

VIRTIS: Spectrographic Mapper

ASPERA-4 Main Unit

The Venus Express spacecraft

After launch and separation from the last of the four launcher stages, Venus Express spent 153 days in an interplanetary transfer orbit.

The Venus Express spacecraft was launched on a Soyuz-Fregat rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 03:33:34 UT on 9 November 2005.

Bottom view of the Soyuz launcher's main stage boosters.

Venus Express was launched by a Soyuz-Fregat launcher from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on 9 November 2005, early in the launch window, open from 26 October until 25 November 2005. Soyuz-Fregat rockets...

PFS: Planetary Fourier Spectrometer

VMC: Venus Monitoring Camera

Venus Express Instruments

Old URL = http://www.iwf.oeaw.ac.at/english/research/solarsystem/planets/venus/venusexpress/venusexpress_e.html

Venus, the second planet from the Sun, lies, on average, 108 million km from the Sun, about 30% closer than the Earth. Venus is often referred to as our sister planet because of similarities in...

Live Image from the Astrium workbench of Venus Express. Updated every day at 13:00 CET

The fairing on support structure in the MIK-112 building.

Mission Team Venus Express Science Operations Centre (VSOC) The VSOC is primarily located at the European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC), in Villanueva de la Cañada, a suburb of...

RF Communications Block Diagram

Venus Transit 2012 at ESO This page provides a link to http://www.vt-2012.org/

In the foreground, Venus Express, which will study the Venusian atmosphere. Venus is like Earth's twin in someways and unlike in many others.

Solar Panel Test

Our planet is warming up, and experts warn that the consequences will be serious. To see precisely how the process works, scientists need as much information as possible and from many different...

In the foreground, Venus Express, which will study the Venusian atmosphere. Venus is like Earth's twin in someways and unlike in many others.

The volcano, Sif Mons, on Venus shows evidence for past activity in the form of a solidified lava flow that shows up in this image as a brighter streak down the sides of its cone. Planetary...

Artist's impression of Venus Express approching the Venusian surface

Artist's impression of Venus Express orbiting Venus

Artist's impression of Venus Express orbiting Venus

Yesterday, ESA's Science Programme Committee (SPC) gave the final go-ahead for the Venus Express mission. The SPC, which met on 4 and 5 November 2002, unanimously confirmed its strong will to...

IAU Colloquium 196: Transits of Venus

The Sun's rays pierce through the cloudy Venusian atmosphere and warm the planet's surface. As the heat rises from the surface it becomes trapped below the cloud layer - the greenhouse effect.

Venus Express mission report from 35th COSPAR meeting This page provides a link to /science-e/www/object/doc.cfm?fobjectid=35798 ...

Just two weeks after the flawless launch of Mars Express on its way towards the Red Planet, ESA and the European-Russian company Starsem reinforced their relationship with the signature of the...

What kind of mysteries and scientific intrigue await the European Space Agency's Venus Express once it has left Earth for its nearest planetary neighbour in 2005? A closer inspection promises...

NASA Deep Space Network This page provides a link to http://deepspace.jpl.nasa.gov

Transport of Venus Express to Intespace, Toulouse, where it undergoes system level tests, in ambient conditions, in vacuum at extreme temperatures and also vibration tests, representative of the...

Transport of Venus Express to Intespace, Toulouse, where it undergoes system level tests, in ambient conditions, in vacuum at extreme temperatures and also vibration tests, representative of the...

Venus Express on the Right Track Publication date: 05 October 2004 Authors: J. Fabrega, T. Schirmann, R. Schmidt, D. McCoy Journal: ref. IAC-04-Q.2.a.07 Page: pp. 1-9 Year:...

Venus Express spacecraft undergoing testing at Alenia in September 2004.

This is a Hubble Space Telescope ultraviolet-light image of the planet Venus, taken on January 24 1995, when Venus was at a distance of 70.6 million miles (113.6 million kilometers) from Earth....

Golubkina crater on Venus is 34 kilometres in diameter. Studying the number and size of craters on Venus proves that the surface of the planet is only 500 million years old. Scientists believe...

Data Archive This page provides a link to http://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/psa/venus-express

Venus Express Spacecraft

Venus Express Spacecraft

Venus Express Spacecraft

A detailed, three-dimensional view of the wind speeds and directions in the cloud layers of Venus has been obtained with the VIRTIS instrument on Venus Express. This study, which benefited from an...

Venus Express spacecraft during assembly at Alenio Spazio in Turin. The main instrument bay is near completion.

First European Mission to Venus An overview of the Venus Express mission concentrating on the technical aspects and the role of Astrium in building the spacecraft. Last Update: 1...

Venus Express report from 35th COSPAR meeting Last Update: 1 September 2019

Venus Express spacecraft undergoing testing at Alenia in September 2004.