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Key facts
- Mission type
- Venus orbiter
- Operator
- European Space Agency
- Cospar id
- 2005-045A
- Website
- www .esa .int /venus
- Mission duration
- Planned: 2 years , Final: 9 years, 2 months, 9 days
- Manufacturer
- EADS Astrium
- Launch mass
- 1,270 kg (2,800 lb)
- Dry mass
- 700 kg (1,500 lb)
- Payload mass
- 93 kg (205 lb)
- Dimensions
- 1.5 × 1.8 × 1.4 m (4.9 × 5.9 × 4.6 ft)
- Power
- 1,100 watts
- Launch date
- 9 November 2005, 03:33:34 ( 2005-11-09UTC03:33:34 ) UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz-FG / Fregat
- Launch site
- Baikonur 31/6
- Contractor
- Starsem
- Disposal
- Deorbited
- Last contact
- 18 January 2015, 15:01:55 ( 2015-01-18UTC15:01:56 ) UTC
- Decay date
- January / February 2015
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- orbiter
- Duration
- 289785600
- Parent body
- Venus
- Mass
- 93
- Orbital period
- 24
- Manufacturer
- Astrium
- Official website
- www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Venus_Express
- Image
- Venus Express in orbit (crop).jpg
- Height
- 1.4
- Width
- 1.8
- Length
- 1.5
- Significant event
- atmospheric entry
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- time of object orbit decay
- 2015-02-00
- Commons category
- Venus Express
- space launch vehicle
- Soyuz-FG
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 2005-11-09
- start point
- Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 31
- nominal power output
- 1100
- launch contractor
- Starsem
- cause of destruction
- orbital decay
- periapsis
- 460
- apoapsis
- 63000
- orbital inclination
- 90
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