2001–2012: Planetary Exploration Becomes Persistent
Venus Express
Long-duration Venus atmospheric science mission.
Era 4 of 6 · full record in the catalog
- Launch
- year known only: 2005
- Lead / partner
- ESA
- Target
- Venus
- Category
- Planetary orbiter
- Status
- Success
- Vehicle
- unknown
- Mass
- unknown
- Orbit / trajectory
- unknown
Why it happened
Venus Express flew during 2001–2012: Planetary Exploration Becomes Persistent, as part of ESA's work toward venus. A sourced write-up of the context around this mission is still on the editorial queue; nothing here is invented to fill the gap.
The mission
The full narrative of this mission is pending research and writing. What is recorded so far: Long-duration Venus atmospheric science mission.
Results
Long-duration Venus atmospheric science mission.
Related missions
Sources & image credits
- Image credit: NASA · license: public-domain (source, checked 2026-08-23)
- Mission record: AntarikshPedia canonical dataset (data-sources/missions_timeline.md)
- Specifications reference: NASA NSSDCA Master Catalog