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Venus Express operations
| | | | The mission
| This is an artist's impression of Venus Express orbiting Venus.
Credits: ESA | |  |  | |
| | | | The Flight Control Team
| Octavio Camino is SOM for SMART-1.
Credits: ESA-J.Mai/juergenmai.com | | | | |
| | | | Mission operations overview
| The Soyuz FG-Fregat vehicle carrying Venus Express, ESA's first probe to Venus, lifts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, at 04:33 CET on 9 November 2005.
Credits: ESA / STARSEM-S. CORVAJA | | | | |
| | | | | Animation of the Venus Express orbit insertion around planet Venus, which took place on 11 April 2006. In this phase of the mission, the most challenging since launch, the spacecraft's main engine burns for about 50 minutes, to reduce its speed with respect to Venus to allow the the spacecraft to be captured by the planet's gravitation.
Credits: ESA - AOES Medialab | | | | |
| | | | The ground stations Cebreros, New Norcia
| ESA's new 35-metre deep-space dish antenna, located at Cebreros, near Avila, Spain, is undergoing final acceptance testing.
Credits: European Space Agency/ESA | | | | |
| | | | Ground segment & mission control system
| This mission uses SCOS-2000, the European standard mission control system developed at ESOC.
Credits: ESA | | | | |
| | | | The platform and payload
| A cutaway diagram showing size and locations of Venus Express instruments: MAG, VIRTIS, PFS, SPICAM/SOIR, VMC, VeRa and ASPERA.
Credits: ESA | | | | |
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| | More information Venus Express overviewVenus Express in-depthVenus Express Science Operations Centre Images, animations Ground stations New Norcia - DSA 1Cebreros - DSA 2Launch vehicle Soyuz Related video
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