No. 123 - Routine Operations

25 March 2008

The battery discharge test has been postponed to a more favourable time (currently during the next quadrature phase in January 2009, TBC). The first draft of the battery deep discharge test has been released. Detailed procedures will be prepared and reviewed.

The table below shows a chronology of the main activities in the reporting period:

MET (Day)	Date	DOY	Main Activity
859	16/03/08	076	Routine Operations
860	17/03/08	077	Routine Operations
861	18/03/08	078	Routine Operations
862	19/03/08	079	Routine Operations. Time correlation after pass
863	20/03/08	080	Routine Operations
864	21/03/08	081	Routine Operations
865	22/03/08	082	Routine Operations

At the end of the last Cebreros pass in the reporting period (DOY 082) Venus Express was orbiting Venus at 235.4 million km from the Earth. The one-way signal travel time was 785.3 seconds.

Payload Activities

ASPERA
The instrument was regularly operated as part of the routine plan.

MAG
The instrument was regularly operated as part of the routine plan.

PFS
The instrument was not operated during the reporting period.

SPICAV
The instrument was regularly operated as part of the routine plan.

VeRA
No observations were made during the reporting period.

VIRTIS
The instrument was regularly operated as part of the routine plan.

VMC
The instrument was regularly operated as part of the routine plan.

Future Milestones

• New on-board control procedure for the disabling of virtual channel zero (VC0) routing outside visibility. VC0 is used for spacecraft housekeeping telemetry
• Release the HGA-1 S-band anomaly report

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Last Update: 03 July 2008

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