[Monday, June 4, 2007] NASA will host a media teleconference at 2 p.m. EDT on Monday, June 4, to preview the June 5 flyby of the MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft through the Venus system.

[Monday, June 4, 2007] NASA's MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft will make its closest pass to Venus on Tuesday, June 5.

[Thursday, June 7, 2007] NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft swung by Venus for the second time early this evening for a gravity assist that shrank the radius of its orbit around the Sun, pulling it closer to Mercury.

[Friday, June 15, 2007] The first images from MESSENGER's second flyby of Venus are in. MESSENGER flew within 338 kilometers (210 miles) of Venus on June 5, obtaining a gravity assist that shrank the radius of the probe's orbit around the Sun, pulling it closer to Mercury.

[Saturday, June 30, 2007] The quadrature operations have progressed according to plan. Some of the passes were again skipped at Cebreros during the reporting period. The use of "delayed TC files" as part of the quadrature operations has worked very well.

[Saturday, June 30, 2007] The swap from High Gain Antenna 1 to High Gain Antenna 2 took place during this reporting period, and proceeded according to plan. A single Cebreros pass was skipped to increase cooling of VIRTIS for operation.

[Saturday, June 30, 2007] This period saw Venus Express's special operations during the flyby of Venus by NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft.

[Saturday, June 30, 2007] On the last day of the reporting period, the spacecraft's tilt was removed as part of the ending of the quadrature operations. The tilt in the spacecraft attitude is required during the quadrature phases to prevent unacceptable illumination of the VMC.

[Saturday, June 30, 2007] Routine observations took place during this reporting period and occurred as planned.