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Artist's impression of the Venus Express orbit insertion
 
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Part 8 in our Venus Express orbit insertion audio coverage

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Navigating Venus Express is a devilishly difficult problem as computations must take into account all sources of gravity working on the spacecraft. ESA scientists use good old-fashioned classical physics first clarified by Newton, Kepler and others some 400 years ago.  
 
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