May 2006 Top Stories
»» ESA Venus Express Status Report: Orbital Control Manoeuvres
[Monday, May 1, 2006] The 9-days capture orbit has been successfully completed with the first of five Apocentre Lowering Manoeuvres on DoY 110. This manoeuvre has set the spacecraft onto an orbit with a period of about 40 hours and an apocenter altitude of 99,000 km.
»» ESA Venus Express Has Reached Its Final Orbit
[Tuesday, May 9, 2006] Less than one month after insertion into orbit, and after sixteen loops around the planet Venus, ESA's Venus Express spacecraft has reached its final operational orbit on 7 May 2006.
»» ESA Venus Express Status: Early Routine Science Operations
[Wednesday, May 24, 2006] The reporting period is the first period during which all operations have been executed according to the planning inputs received from the Science Operations Center. All observations have been executed as scheduled without any problem.
