Tag: Venus Express

  • Europe’s Venus Express mission is at its end

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    Artist’s concept of the Venus Express spacecraft during an “aerobreaking” campaign conducted in mid-2014. Credit: ESA-C. Carreau The European Space Agency’s Venus Express spacecraft has run out of fuel and will burn up in the atmosphere of Venus in January after a successful eight-year mission. Ground controllers lost contact with Venus Express on Nov. 28…