ESA probe reaches orbit around Venus
Ripcat @ Tue Apr 11, 2006 5:13 pm
Venus Express enters orbit around the Hothouse Planet
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.
canucker @ Mon Apr 17, 2006 5:29 pm
Neato! 