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    ESA > Our Activities > Space Science > Venus Express

    Venus Express launched

    Venus Express lifts off on time at 04:33 CET
    9 November 2005

    Venus Express was launched at 04:33 CET by a Soyuz-Fregat rocket, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazahkstan.

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    Launch of Venus Express

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