TheRadio Science Experiment VeRa onboard ESA's Venus Express (VEX) Spacecraft

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Sep 2006

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American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #38, #26.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 38, p.524

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The VEX spacecraft was successfully injected into the Venus orbit on April 11, 2006. VeRa is an active radio sounding instrument which will measure atmospheric/ionospheric temperature and density profiles, sound with bistatic radar experiments the surface of the planet, will measure its gravity anomalies and investigate also the structure of the corona by analyzing radio carrier signals received on ground in the S- and X-frequency bands. The radio science instrument VeRa is equipped with an ultrastable oscillator (USO) which will be used especially for atmospheric sounding and bistatic radar experiments as frequency reference in the OneWay transmission mode. We will present the current status of the experiment, the results of the commissioning tests and first scientific results.

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