May 2026
From Apollo to Artemis - Six decades of the Lunar and Planetary Institute
... workshops linked to OSIRIS-REx, Hayabusa and other missions. LPI scientists are contributing to NASA’s Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging (DAVINCI) mission, scheduled to launch in the early 2030s. The DAVINCI...
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 ...
December 2014
Finding NEO
.... Another proposed space-based survey, Sentinel, would place a 0.5-metre telescope into an orbit similar to that of Venus. Sentinel is anticipated to be capable of detecting 90 per cent of NEOs larger than 140m in about seven to 10 years of operation...
March 2016
Why We Need Space Artists
...These were followed in the seventies by images and data from Mars, Venus, and later even Jupiter, and in the eighties of Saturn, ... seas and lakes not of water but of liquid hydrocarbons. Venus was long known to possess a dense, cloudy atmosphere which...
November 2016
Rosetta - an eventful cruise phase
... Rosetta mission, but I had to leave the spacecraft operations manager role. Fortunately at this time Venus Express had reached a stable operations phase at Venus, and we decided to call back Andrea Accomazzo, who took my former position as Rosetta...
June 2017
Bepi-Colombo will unveil Mercury’s secrets
...have flown by Mercury only once, briefly, after having passed by Venus. However, an Italian scientist named Giuseppe Colombo, who at the ...six-year cruise, that will see the spacecraft fly by Venus twice and Mercury six times before it settles into the...
