Monthly Archives: July 2022

Readying EnVision spacecraft to surf Venus’ atmosphere at Low Earth Orbit Facility (LOEX), a unique ESA facility in ESTEC

ESA’s EnVision mission to Venus will perform optical, spectral and radar mapping of Earth’s sister planet. But before getting down to work the van-sized spacecraft needs to ‘aerobrake’ – lowering its orbit with thousands of passages through the planet’s hot, thick atmosphere for … Continue reading

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