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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 phase on 29 May. These phases occur regularly and are defined by the periods in the orbit of the planet Venus during which the Sun-spacecraft-Earth angle...
Published: 10 June 2009
Report for Period 24 May to 30 May 2009The Venus Express spacecraft and instruments performed nominally during this week. On 29 May the spacecraft entered a new quadrature phase. These phases occur in pairs (inbound and outbound) and are defined by the periods in the orbit of the planet Venus during which the Sun-spacecraft-Earth angle is...
Published: 3 June 2009
Report for Period 17 May to 23 May 2009The Venus Express spacecraft and instruments performed nominally during this week. Use of the Cebreros ground station was required during the launch and early orbit phase (LEOP) of the Herschel and Planck missions, which were launched on 14 May. This has had an impact on a few communication passes for Venus...
Published: 27 May 2009
Report for Period 10 May to 16 May 2009The Venus Express spacecraft and instruments performed nominally during this week. The dual launch of Herschel and Planck on 14 May required the use of the Cebreros ground station for spacecraft communications during the missions' launch and early orbit phase. This has had an impact on a few communication...
Published: 20 May 2009
Report for Period 3 May to 9 May 2009The Venus Express spacecraft and instruments performed nominally during this week. The dual launch of Herschel and Planck on 14 May has an impact on the Cebreros ground station passes, shortening them by 2-3 hours during about 10 days.
Published: 13 May 2009
Report for Period 26 April to 2 May 2009The Venus Express spacecraft and instruments performed nominally during this week. An orbit control manoeuvre (OCM) was successfully carried out on 26 April (DOY 116) and the mission's seventh gravity observation campaign was completed.
Published: 6 May 2009
Report for Period 19 April to 25 April 2009The Venus Express spacecraft and payload performed nominally during the reporting period. The mission's sixth gravity observation campaign has been performed on 20 April. A battery deep discharge test has been performed on 22 April to obtain measurements for updating/improvement of the battery models.
Published: 29 April 2009
Report for Period 12 April to 18 April 2009The Venus Express spacecraft and payload performed nominally during the reporting period. On DOY 106 the monthly DDOR measurements were taken. On DOY 106 and 107 star tracker B (STR B) has been used in CCD Health Check mode to obtain small mosaic images.
Published: 22 April 2009
Report for Period 5 April to 11 April 2009The Venus Express spacecraft and payload performed nominally during the reporting period.
Published: 15 April 2009
Report for Period 29 March to 4 April 2009The Venus Express spacecraft and payload performed nominally during the reporting period. Taking advantage of the high telemetry bit rates (228 and 182 kbps), this week had a high level of science data production.
Published: 8 April 2009
Report for Period 22 March to 28 march 2009The Venus Express spacecraft and payload performed nominally during the reporting period. Taking advantage of the high telemetry bit rate (228 kbps), this week had a high level of science data production.
Published: 1 April 2009
Report for Period 15 March to 21 march 2009The Venus Express spacecraft and payload performed nominally during this week.
Published: 26 March 2009
Report for Period 8 March to 14 march 2009The Venus Express spacecraft and payload performed nominally during this week.
Published: 18 March 2009
Report for Period 1 March to 7 March 2009The Venus Express spacecraft and payload performed nominally during this week.
Published: 12 March 2009
Report for Period 22 February to 28 February 2009The Venus Express spacecraft and payload performed nominally during this week.
Published: 3 March 2009
Report for Period 15 February to 21 February 2009The Venus Express spacecraft and payload performed nominally during this week. The third VIRTIS cooler test took place on 19 February and the results are currently being analyzed by the VIRTIS PI Team.
Published: 25 February 2009
Report for Period 8 February to 14 february 2009The Venus Express spacecraft and payload performed nominally during this week. The commissioning of the B branch of the Reaction Control Subsystem (RCS) on 12 February 2009 has been successful.
Published: 18 February 2009
Report for Period 1 February to 7 February 2009The Venus Express spacecraft and payload performed nominally during this week, with VIRTIS continued being operated in visual channels only.
Published: 12 February 2009
Report for Period 25 January to 31 January 2009Nominal operations were conducted during the reporting period. Sunday, 25 January, was the last day of this inbound quadrature phase. Having been in a tilted configuration since 19 December 2008, the spacecraft started performing communication passes in a non-tilted configuration again on 26 January.
Published: 5 February 2009
Report for Period 18 January to 24 January 2009Nominal operations were conducted during the reporting period. The spacecraft is still in quadrature phase, performing communications passes in a tilted configuration since 19 December 2008.
Published: 30 January 2009
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