EUROPE - Venus probe launched successfully

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Updated: Wednesday, 9

November 2005, 07:14 GMT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Venus

probe launched successfully

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By Paul Rincon

BBC News science reporter, Baikonur

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Soyuz-Fregat

rocket launched the probe. Image: European Space Agency

 

 

 

Europe's first space mission to Venus has begun

its five-month voyage to our closest planetary neighbour.

Venus Express lifted off on a Russian rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome

in Kazakhstan at 0333 GMT on Wednesday.

The spacecraft will orbit Venus to study its atmosphere, which

has experienced runaway greenhouse warming.

Scientists hope the two-year mission will shed further light on

the mechanisms of climate change on our own world.

About 90 minutes after the probe blasted off, mission

controllers said that it had left Earth orbit and was on its way to Venus.

Shortly afterwards, they received the first signal from the craft.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4420210.stm

 

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