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Venus Express mission comes to an end

Submit on Tuesday, December 16th, 2014 22:57

ESA’s Venus Express has ended its eight-year mission after far exceeding its planned life. The spacecraft exhausted its propellant during a series of thruster burns to raise its orbit following the low-altitude aerobraking earlier this year.

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