terça-feira, abril 11, 2006

Venus Express

Europe scores new planetary success: Venus Express enters orbit around the Hothouse Planet
11 April 2006

ESA PR 13-2006. This morning, at the end of a 153-day and 400-million km cruise into the inner Solar System beginning with its launch on 9 November 2005, ESA’s Venus Express space probe fired its main engine at 09:17 CEST for a 50-minute burn, which brought it into orbit around Venus.