Venus Express |
Venus Express |
Apr 12 2005, 06:56 PM
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Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Admin Posts: 4405 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 |
If all goes well, Venus Express will be a major topic for discussion in this forum a year from now. Does anyone know how good the surface coverage will be from VIRTIS and VMC? My understanding is that VIRTIS will obtain low resolution multispectral maps, and that VMC will, in addition to cloud monitoring, have one channel that can see the surface, but I don't know at what resolution or at what quality. It will be nice to have some non-radar images of Venus' surface besides the Venera snapshots and the shadowy images from Earth and Galileo's NIMS.
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Oct 12 2005, 04:09 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1636 Joined: 9-May 05 From: Lima, Peru Member No.: 385 |
New update. Now it is less than 14 days from launching on October 26 from Baikonour Cosmodrome.
Venus Express ready for 'mating' with upper-stage * Propellant loading already completed. Two tanks with more than 260 liters capacity. * Venus already has its wings. Provides 1,100 watts of power. It is made of Gallium Arsenide Triple Junction * Electrical test completed. Automatic sequence of maneuvers works. Almost ready for a trip of 153 days toward to Venus for a mission of 500 days in Venus orbit. Launch mass is 1,270 kg. Rodolfo |
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Oct 13 2005, 01:50 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
Preparations for ESA's Venus Express mission passed a new milestone when the
spacecraft was attached to its Fregat upper-stage rocket. The mission is now only two weeks away from launch on 26 October. More at: http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Venus_Express/SEMTYW5Y3EE_0.html -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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