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Article: Venus Express gets down to work
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- Interavia
- Article date:
- July 1, 2006
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The European Venus Express space probe was ready to begin its scientific mission as we went to press. After a journey of nearly five months and 400 million kilometres, Venus Express successfully entered orbit around Venus on 11 April.
Venus Express - the first European spacecraft to visit the planet Venus -was designed and built for the European Space Agency, in only 33 months, under the prime contractorship of EADS Astrium and launched on 9 November 2005 from the Baikonour Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
In the coming weeks, Venus Express will begin its one and half Earth year-long mission to investigate the Venusian atmosphere in terms of structure, composition and dynamics with its seven ...