Venus Express spacecraft ready for launch
Venus Express spacecraft ready for launch
NewScientist.com news service
28 September 2005
http://www.newscientistspace.com/article.ns?id=dn8066
"The European Space Agency is set to launch a spacecraft to Venus. It
will be the first mission to the swelteringly hot and corrosive planet
in 15 years."
The article also gives a brief run down of the extreme conditions on
Venus. There may be life there but certainly not as we know it!
Keep searchin',
Martin
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Relevant Pages
- Venus Express launch campaign starts (Forwarded)
... ESA's Venus Express spacecraft has just completed its last phase of testing in Europe and is ready to be shipped to its launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. ... One and a half years after its sister spacecraft Mars Express arrived at Mars, Europe's newest planetary probe is ready to depart on the first leg of its journey to Earth's own sister planet, the mysterious Venus. ...
(sci.astro) - Venus Express preliminary investigations bring encouraging news (Forwarded)
... Following the announcement of the Venus Express launch delay due to particulate contamination found in the launcher fairing where the spacecraft was installed, ESA staff and industry teams have started an inspection of the spacecraft. ...
(sci.astro) - Venus Express team in launch countdown (Forwarded)
... At 07:00 CET Monday, the Venus Express mission ... clock began ticking down to Wednesday's launch. ... the Mission Control Team ran through ...
(sci.space.news) - Venus Express team in launch countdown (Forwarded)
... The excitement at ESOC and particularly in the Main Control Room is palpable as launch preparations get under way. ... overseeing the 'B' section of the MCT conduct a series of live pre-flight checks, which included confirming main and alternative data communications with the initial ground control stations for Venus Express, located in Australia, California and Kourou, French Guiana. ...
(sci.astro) - Venus Express set for launch to the cryptic planet (Forwarded)
... A dense curtain of mysteries surrounding Venus, ... planet to Earth, awaits to be opened after the launch of Venus Express, ... the next planetary probe of the European Space Agency. ... carrying this precious spacecraft aloft. ...
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