Closing in on Venus.

[Notebook]

Starting this week, spacecraft controllers have been executing a series of manoeuvres to gradually bring Venus Express closer to its host planet. In its modified orbit, the spacecraft will be able to observe unexplored regions and investigate phenomena that were not within its reach before.

http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Operations/SEM25EWIPIF_0.html

As the next step, Venus Express may test aerobraking, a technique where a spacecraft uses the force exerted by the planet’s atmosphere to decelerate and so significantly change its orbit in a controlled manner.

N.

 

[Urwumpe]

Thank god we only use metric system in ESA. :lol:

 

[astrosammy]

Thank god we only use metric system in ESA. :lol:

:lol:
You thought of the Mars Climate Orbiter, right?