2.4.0 spase://CNES/Observatory/CDPP-Archive/VEX Venus Express 2021-10-08T10:47:09Z ESA's Venus Express mission was launched 09-Nov-2005 and arrived at Venus in April, 2006. The spacecraft went into a near-polar orbit on 06-May-2006, with apogee and perigee altitudes of 66,000 km and 250 km (10.9 and 0.04 Venus radii). The main goal of the mission is to conduct a comprehensive study of the atmosphere of Venus and to examine the plasma environment and the interaction between the upper atmosphere and the solar wind. Instruments carried on Venus Express are: - the Venus Monitoring Camera, a wide angle imager - ASPERA, a combined energetic neutral atom imager, ion, and electron spectrometer, and magnetometer - PFS, an IR Fourier spectrometer - SPICAV/SOIR, a UV/IR spectrometer - VIRTIS, a UV, visible, IR imaging spectrometer - MAG, a suite of two magnetometers, and VeRa, a radio science experiment. spase://CNES/Person/CDPP-Archive/Hakan.Svedhem ProjectScientist ESA Venus Express web page http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Venus_Express/ Venus 2005-11-09T04:33:00