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30-September-2004, 09:13 PM
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Venus Express - the ESA mission to Venus
Venus Express is Assembled
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02-February-2005, 11:50 PM
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A quick mention of it here
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http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/1...6,00040005.htm Another mention of it here http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/...in667813.shtml looking at the design it seems the their Venus Express craft has been learning much from Mars Express and perhaps other designs such as past missions by ESA or NASA
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27-February-2005, 09:19 AM
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Launch October 2005 from Baikonur
http://www.esa.int/export/esaSC/SEM2...D_index_0.html Quote:
Venus Express will study the Venusian atmosphere and clouds in unprecedented detail and accuracy. Instruments and Measurements Quote VMC objective Ultraviolet and visible imaging heritage Mars Express (HRSC/SRC) and Rosetta (OSIRIS) The VMC camera consists of one unit that houses the optics, CCD and readout electronics (CRE), digital processing unit (DPU), and power converter (POC). The camera has four separate objective lens systems.... MAG Objective Magnetic field measurements Heritage Rosetta Lander (ROMAP) MAG, the magnetometer instrument, is designed to make measurements of magnetic field strength and direction. VeRa objective Radio sounding of atmosphere heritage Rosetta (RSI) The Venus Radio Science experiment (VeRa) will perform the following experiments: Radio sounding of the neutral Venus atmosphere (occultation experiment) to derive vertical density, pressure and temperature profiles as a function of height, with a height resolution better than 100 metres Radio sounding of the ionosphere of Venus (occultation experiment) to derive vertical ionospheric electron density profiles and to derive a description of the global behaviour of the ionosphere through its diurnal and seasonal variations and its dependence on solar wind conditions Determination of the dielectric and scattering properties of the surface of Venus in specific target areas using a bistatic radar experiment Radio sounding of the solar corona during the inferior and superior conjunctions of Venus The radio links of the spacecraft communications system will be used for these investigations. A simultaneous and coherent dual-frequency downlink at X-band and S-band via the High Gain Antenna is required to separate the effects of the classical Doppler shift due to the motion of the spacecraft relative to the Earth and the effects caused by the propagation of the signals through the various dispersive media in the signal path. PFS objective . Atmospheric vertical sounding by infrared Fourier spectroscopy heritage Mars Express (PFS) The Planetary Fourier Spectrometer (PFS) is an infrared spectrometer optimised for atmospheric studies and covering the wavelength range 0.9 to 45 microns in two channels with a boundary at 5 microns. The spectral resolution of the instrument is better than 2 cm-1 . The instrument field of view FOV is about 1.6 degrees FWHM for the Short Wavelength (SW) channel and 2.8 degrees for the Long Wavelength (LW) channel. These fields of view correspond to a spatial resolution of seven kilometres for the SW channel and 13 kilometres for the LW channel when Venus is observed from a height of 250 kilometres (nominal height of the pericentre). PFS is equipped with a pointing device, which enables it to receive incoming radiation from the surface of Venus or to perform calibration measurements by pointing to a reference black body of known temperature or to deep space.... ASPERA-4 . objective Neutral and ionised plasma analysis Heritage Mars Express (ASPERA-3) VIRTIS Objective Spectrographic mapping of atmosphere and surface Heritage Rosetta (VIRTIS) VIRTIS is an imaging spectrometer that combines three observing channels in one instrument. Two of the channels are devoted to spectral mapping (mapper optical subsystem), while the third channel is devoted to spectroscopy (high resolution optical subsystem).... SPICAV objective Atmospheric spectrometry by star or Sun occultation heritage Mars Express (SPICAM) http://pfsweb.ifsi.rm.cnr.it/Venus.html http://www.linmpi.mpg.de/english/pro...s-express/vmc/ http://www.rm.iasf.cnr.it/ias-home/V...us-Express.htm Venus Express instrument link
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27-February-2005, 05:49 PM
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10-March-2005, 05:02 PM
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I think this Euro mission might be very good, we already have some very good info from the Russian Venera landers and we know much from the USA's Spacecraft like Mariner and fantastic pics from Magellan
venus pic http://www.solarviews.com/raw/venus/topoven2.jpg the ESA mission might to fill in some of the missing gaps in our knowledge on Venus I'm not sure what Rocket will launch it, but ESA have the Ariane and also have often used Russian launchers for their missions they say it will go up from Baikonur so this looks to be a Russian launch
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10-March-2005, 10:10 PM
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And I'd really love a "Potential Threat to the <insert Venusian lander name> Mission" thread.
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10-March-2005, 10:20 PM
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10-June-2005, 06:58 PM
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ESA Venus mission seems to be doing good
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7354 http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/inde...ompetition.xml NASA might build a lander in the future, like the Russians have done they might try and do a repeat of scientific journey with the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity on Venus
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07-July-2005, 05:45 PM
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Venus Express – ready to study Venusian atmosphere
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08-July-2005, 12:53 AM
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quick mention of the Venus plan here
http://www.innovations-report.de/htm...cht-45817.html http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/a...ow/1154899.cms ESA Venus mission
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12-July-2005, 05:39 AM
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some more information on the mission
older news items had good info European Space Agency's first mission to Earth's nearest planetary neighbour, Venus http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/...g?sc=VENUS-EXP http://www.cnes.fr/html/_107_513_514_.php http://www.spacetoday.org/Europe/EuroSats.html http://www.venus2004.org/sinformer/n/news3213.php http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=11853 http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions...=Venus_Express
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18-July-2005, 06:24 AM
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Should be a great mission more photos here http://bbs.defence.co.kr/html/bbs/da...%20Express.jpg http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/obj...objectid=35946 http://www.astro.uio.no/ita/artikler...usexpress.html http://alsroma.alespazio.it/news/ing/2003/163.htm high res pics
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27-July-2005, 09:35 AM
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They have a count down clock
90 days - 18 hrs, 9 minutes 30 secs http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/are...cfm?fareaid=64 before the Venus mission is launched
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04-August-2005, 02:15 PM
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ESA's Venus Express spacecraft has just completed its last phase of testing in Europe and is ready to be shipped to its launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
link topic on venus
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09-September-2005, 02:33 AM
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http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/obj...objectid=37844
Everything is still moving forward on time.
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13-September-2005, 06:01 AM
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http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_i...6099261247S121
Scientists are putting the finishing touches to a landmark European mission to explore Venus
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