Venus Express: Mission Status and First Results

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Sep 2006

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American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #38, #09.03; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 38, p.493

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Venus Express is the first European mission to Venus. It aims at global investigation of the atmosphere, the plasma environment, and the surface from polar orbit. The Venus Express spacecraft was launched by the Russian Sojuz-Fregat launcher from Baykonur (Kazakhstan) on November 9, 2005. On April 11, 2006 after 153 days of interplanetary cruise Venus Express reached its destination and was inserted into a polar orbit around the planet. After about two months of commissioning it began nominal science operations. The payload consists of seven experiments: ASPERA - an instrument for in situ detection and characterisation of energetic neutral and charged particles, MAG - a dual sensor fluxgate magnetometer, PFS - an IR Fourier spectrometer, VIRTIS - a mapping UV-vis-IR spectrometer, Spicav/SOIR - an UV-IR stellar and solar occultation spectrometer, VMC - a four band wide angle camera, and VeRa - a radio science experiment including occultation and bistatic radar functions. Science operations include pericentre nadir observations, off-pericentre and apocentre mosaics, limb sounding, solar, stellar and Earth occultation. This paper will give an overview of the Venus Express mission, its status, and highlights of the first results.

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