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Report for Period 24 August to 30 August 2008Nominal operations were conducted during the reporting period. The atmospheric drag experiment measurement passes associated with the pericentre altitude lowering campaign have now concluded.
Published: 2 September 2008
Report for Period 17 August to 23 August 2008All operations have been nominal during the reporting period. Five successive passes around pericentre were devoted to spacecraft tracking as part of the atmospheric drag experiment (ADE).
Published: 28 August 2008
Report for Period 10 August to 16 August 2008All operations have been nominal during the reporting period.
Published: 20 August 2008
Report for Period 3 August to 9 August 2008 All operations have been nominal during the reporting period. The fourth and final pair of Orbit Control Manoeuvres (OCMs) to lower the pericenter altitude and to raise the apocentre altitude was executed. For the first time, there have been clear indications of a very low level of atmospheric drag...
Published: 13 August 2008
Report for Period 27 July to 2 August 2008All operations have been nominal during the reporting period. The third pair of Orbit Control Manoeuvres (OCMs) to lower the pericenter altitude and to raise the apocentre altitude was executed. Planning of the fourth pair was performed and commands were uploaded to the spacecraft for execution during...
Published: 7 August 2008
Report for Period 20 July to 26 July 2008All operations have been nominal during the reporting period. During this period the second pair of Orbit Control Manoeuvres (OCM) to reduce the pericentre altitude and to raise the apocentre altitude was executed. Planning of the third pair was performed and commands were uploaded to the spacecraft for...
Published: 29 July 2008
Report for Period 13 July to 19 July 2008All operations have been nominal during the reporting period. During this period the first pair of Orbit Control Manoeuvres (OCM) to reduce the pericentre altitude and to raise the apocentre altitude was executed. Planning of the second pair was performed and commands were uploaded to the spacecraft for...
Published: 22 July 2008
Report for Period 6 July to 12 July 2008All operations have been nominal during the reporting period.Between 13 July and 5 August 2008 a series of manoeuvres is performed to lower the pericentre altitude of Venus Express (see also the link on the right hand side for more details). The first pair of manoeuvres (one manoeuvre to raise the...
Published: 15 July 2008
Report for Period 29 June to 5 July 2008All operations have been nominal during the reporting period. The telecommunication (TC) bit rate has been increased to 2 kbps.
Published: 9 July 2008
Report for Period 22 June to 28 June 2008The reporting period was the first complete week of nominal science operations after the solar conjunction phase.
Published: 2 July 2008
Report for Period 15 June to 21 June 2008The reporting period covered the last days of solar conjunction phase operations (ending on 19 June), the reconfiguration of the solid state mass memory (SSMM) and the resume of science activities. Commanding tests and recording of open loop data continued until the exit from the conjunction phase.
Published: 24 June 2008
Report for Period 8 June to 14 June 2008The reporting period covered conjunction phase operations. During this phase, groundstation pass operations are reduced: no science activities are carried out, no solid state mass memory (SSMM) dumping takes place.
Published: 17 June 2008
Report for Period 1 June to 7 June 2008The reporting period covered conjunction phase operations. During this phase, groundstation pass operations are reduced: no science activities are carried out, no solid state mass memory (SSMM) dumping takes place.
Published: 10 June 2008
Report for Period 25 May to 31 May 2008Operations have been nominal during the reporting period. The conjunction operations started on 30 May.
Published: 3 June 2008
Report for Period 18 May to 24 May 2008 Routine operations continued nominally as planned.
Published: 27 May 2008
Report for Period 11 May to 17 May 2008Operations have been nominal during the reporting period. Four passes were split into two parts in order to allow ground station support for Phoenix delta DORs. On 16 May, a trajectory control manoeuvre (TCM) was successfully performed. Telecommunication bit rate was decreased in preparation for the...
Published: 20 May 2008
Report for Period 4 May to 10 May 2008Routine operations continued nominally as planned.
Published: 13 May 2008
Report for Period 27 April to 3 May 2008Operations have been nominal during the reporting period. During this week the new on-board control procedure (OBCP) to enable/disable the routing of virtual channel zero (VC0, for spacecraft housekeeping telemetry) was routinely used.
Published: 6 May 2008
Report for Period 20 April to 26 April 2008Routine operations continued nominally as planned.
Published: 29 April 2008
Report for Period 13 April to 19 April 2008Routine operations continued nominally as planned.
Published: 22 April 2008
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