August 2017
Big science from small spacecraft
... their isotopic ratios, a sample of the atmosphere has to be acquired where the atmosphere is well-mixed: which for Venus is below 120 km altitude. LunarIceCube’s elaborate low-thrust trajectory (diagram above) places it into a final mapping orbit...
November 2018
BepiColombo – a mission to explore Mercury
... launched on an Ariane 5 from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana in October 2018. It will use the gravity of Earth, Venus and Mercury, in combination with the thrust provided by the Mercury Transfer Module (MTM) - which is powered by a solar...
December 2014
MAVEN and the evolution of Mars
...and in particular formation of the terrestrial planets Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars, often consider that at least the... remaining original inventory of atmospheric gases probably was similar for Venus, Earth and Mars, which, unlike Mercury, are far ...
07 February 2020
ESA's Solar Orbiter mission set to launch on 10 February
... Solar Orbiter will perform two gravity-assist manoeuvres around Venus and one around Earth and a series of chemical ...our division, from the Rosetta landing, to BepiColombo and Venus Express,” says Sylvain Lodiot, Spacecraft Operations Manager for the...
August 2016
International cooperation drives Germany’s space ambitions
... of the Martian surface since 2004. The now concluded Venus Express mission was similar, and investigated the atmosphere of Venus from 2006 onwards. The VIRTIS spectrometer on Venus Express was developed by DLR. In addition to the already flown...
30 October 2019
Solar Orbiter ready for launch transfer
...Solar Orbiter will perform two gravity-assist manoeuvres around Venus and one around Earth to alter the spacecraft's ...The spacecraft's orbit has been chosen to be 'in resonance' with Venus, which means that it will return to the planet's vicinity ...
