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The launch of Venus Express craft from Baikonur Cosmodrome to occur tomorrow

Baikonur, Kazakhstan - To expand on climate change on Venusian planet

The European Space Agency will launch tomorrow from Kazakhstan-based Baikonur Cosmodrome the space craft Venus Express on a Russian Soyuz rocket. Venus Express will have to explore Venus after more than 15 years from the mission of US satellite Magellano in 1989. Alenia spazio has provided two satellite transponders to make possible communications between the Earth and the Venusian planet: it has also...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 130555
Rome, Italy, 11/08/2005 16:16
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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