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Martin wrote:

On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 15:08:54 +0200, Tim C.
wrote:

Following up to Martin :

Europe Scores New Planetary Success:
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. With
this firing, the probe reduced its relative velocity toward the planet
from 29,000 to about 25,000 km/h and was captured by its gravity
field. This orbit insertion manoeuvre was a complete success.

...

Excellent, I was following it until the low-gain signal was received this
morning, then had a meeting and forgot about it.

I forgot about it until I got a copy of the press release.
Another successful Turin product


By "successful Turin product" do you mean it won't rust out early or be
copied by the Russians...???

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Best
Greg

Following up to Martin :

On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:08:18 +0200, Tim C.
wrote:

Following up to "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" :



Miss L. Toe wrote:

"Martin" wrote in message
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Europe Scores New Planetary Success:
Venus Express Enters Orbit around the Hothouse Planet



is venus in europe ?

No, but one assumes ESA is! The post may not belong on this
newsgroup, but since "normal" U.S. media sources seldom
mention space programs other than NASA's, the American
public is not as aware of them as we should be, thus the
report is of some interest.


ESA is European, and we could say that going to Venus is travel in a *big*
way.

I find it odd that with all the OT crap posted here objections are
made to a posting concerning travel from Europe to Venus.

I can do better than NASA or the ESA, I once rode my motorbike from Mens
(pronounced mars) to Venas in 2 days.
--
Tim C.

Martin wrote:

On 14 Apr 2006 14:26:34 GMT, Jesper Lauridsen
wrote:


On 2006-04-12, Martin wrote:

I find it odd that with all the OT crap posted here objections are
made to a posting concerning travel from Europe to Venus.

I doubt that the probe was launched from anywhere in Europe.


The probe was built in Turin the rocket was launched in Europe.


Sorry but the rocket was launched from well inside Asia that's not in
Europe.