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Venus Express to plunge further into Venus

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The European Space Agency's Venus Express probe is set to perform a series of aerobraking manoeuvres over the next few weeks in the upper atmosphere of our twin planet. The spacecraft has been collecting data on the Venusian atmosphere in a polar orbit around Venus since 2006, but is scheduled to run out of fuel later this year. The aerobraking will plunge the craft deeper into the atmosphere and hopefully get some last minute data before its end of life.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Venus_Express_in_orbit.jpg

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2014-06-09 23:08
Venus Express to plunge further into Venus
bryan@pipedot.org
The European Space Agency's Venus Express probe is set to perform a series of aerobraking manoeuvres over the next few weeks in the upper atmosphere of our twin planet. The spacecraft has been collecting data on the Venusian atmosphere in a polar orbit around Venus since 2006, but is scheduled to run out of fuel later this year. The aerobraking will plunge the craft deeper into the atmosphere and hopefully get some last minute data before its end of life.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Venus_Express_in_orbit.jpg
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