Currently ESOC is operating the following spacecraft: XMM-Newton, the four Cluster spacecraft, INTEGRAL, Mars Express, Rosetta, Venus Express, GOCE, Herschel, Planck, and Cryosat-2

The Venus Express orbiter has been continuously sending back Venus science data since April 11, 2006.

Results from Venus Express include the detection of hydroxyl in the atmosphere.

* 2005 – The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Despite this, it has been suggested that radio pulses recorded by the spacecraft Venus Express ( which began orbiting Venus in April 2006 ) may originate from lightning on Venus.

* Venus Express — ESA probe sent for the observation of the Venus's weather ( 2005 )

Orbital telescopes such as INTEGRAL, XMM-Newton and COROT, and space probes like Mars Express, Venus Express, Cassini-Huygens and Rosetta, operated by the European space agency are revolutionizing our knowledge of the Universe and our Solar System.

His successes as a film producer include Bugsy Malone, Midnight Express, The Duellists ( Ridley Scott's feature film debut ), Chariots of Fire ( which won the Academy Award for Best Picture ), Local Hero, Memphis Belle, Meeting Venus and The Killing Fields and The Mission with Roland Joffé ( which won the Palme d ' Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1986 ) mostly in association with Goldcrest.

Used by European Space Agency on their Venus Express Mission

* Venus Express ( 2005 ) is an ESA satellite to study Venus.

Sternberg and Dietrich continued to collaborate in the United States on Morocco ( 1930 ), Dishonored ( 1931 ), Shanghai Express ( 1932 ), Blonde Venus ( 1932 ), The Scarlet Empress ( 1934 ), and The Devil is a Woman ( 1935 ).

* Observation of the atmosphere of Venus simultaneously from Earth-based telescopes and from the Venus Express spacecraft.

* Venus Express, the sister-probe to Mar Express built using the same spacecraft bus and the first Western European mission to Venus.

* 1962 – The Mariner 2 unmanned space mission is launched to Venus by NASA.

* 1974 – Tim Kasher, American singer-songwriter Cursive, The Good Life, Slowdown Virginia, and Commander Venus )

* 215 BC – A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene.

Three of his bronzes grace the grand staircase of the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City: Summer ( 1910 – 11 ), Venus Without Arms ( 1920 ), and Kneeling Woman: Monument to Debussy ( 1950 – 55 ).

Two, from the Venus tablet of Ammisaduqa ( compiled in Babylon around 1700 BCE ) are reported to have been made during the reign of king Sargon of Akkad ( 2334 – 2279 BCE ).

* 1820 – The Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Melos.

* 1990 – The Magellan space probe reaches Venus.

* the bronze statue of Venus ( 1558 – 59 ), in the Prado Museum ( Madrid, Spain ).

* Ted & Venus ( 1991 ) – Colette

* 1970 – Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 successfully land on Venus.

* 2010 – The Japanese solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS passes the planet Venus at a distance of about 80, 800 km.

* 1962 – NASA's Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus.

* 1961 – U. S. S. R. launches Venera 1 towards Venus.

* 1942 – Richard Williams, father of Venus Williams and Serena Williams

* 1980 – Venus Williams, American tennis player

* 1959 – Venus occults the star Regulus.

* 2004 – The first Venus Transit in modern history takes place, the previous one being in 1882.

In 1874 – 1875, British, German and U. S. expeditions visited Kerguelen to observe the transit of Venus.

* 1966 – Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface.

* 1717 – The Loves of Mars and Venus is the first ballet performed in England.

* 1969 – Venera program: Soviet Venera 6 begins its descent into the atmosphere of Venus, sending back atmospheric data before being crushed by pressure.

* 1969 – Venera program: Venera 5, a Soviet spaceprobe, lands on Venus.

* 1965 – Venera program: the Soviet Union launches the Venera 3 space probe toward Venus, that will be the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet.

Space probes have been placed into orbit around all the five planets known to the ancients: first Mars ( Mariner 9, 1971 ), then Venus ( Venera 9, 1975 ; but landings on Venus and atmospheric probes were performed even earlier ), Jupiter ( Galileo, 1995 ), Saturn ( Cassini / Huygens, 2004 ), and most recently Mercury ( MESSENGER, March 2011 ), and have returned data about these bodies and their natural satellites.

* 1975 – The Soviet unmanned space mission Venera 9 lands on Venus.

On 9 September 2060, Halley has been calculated to pass within of Jupiter, and then on 20 August 2061, pass within of Venus.

Venus rotates retrograde with a sidereal day lasting about 243. 0 earth-days, or about 1. 08 times its orbital period of 224. 7 earth-days ; hence by the retrograde formula its solar day is about 116. 8 earth-days, and it has about 1. 9 solar days per orbital period.

* 1975 – Venera 9 becomes the first probe to successfully transmit images from the surface of Venus.

* 1975-- Venus-Success-Venera 9 returns the first pictures of the surface of Venus

Among the other results, probes of the series became the first man-made devices to enter the atmosphere of another planet ( Venera 4 on October 18, 1967 ), to make a soft landing on another planet ( Venera 7 on December 15, 1970 ), to return images from the planetary surface ( Venera 9 on June 8, 1975 ), and to perform high-resolution radar mapping studies of Venus ( Venera 15 on June 2, 1983 ).

They included a transfer and relay bus that had engines to brake into Venus orbit ( Venera 9 and 10, 15 and 16 ) and to serve as receiver and relay for the entry probe's transmissions.

* Venera 9 – 8 June 1975 – First Venus orbiter and lander ; First images from surface of Venus

* Venera 11 – 9 September 1978 – Venus flyby and lander

Image: Venera 9 orbiter. jpg | Venera 9First Venus orbiter

The NASA Solar Probe + mission, scheduled for launch in 2018, uses multiple gravity assists at Venus to remove the Earth's angular momentum from the orbit, in order to drop down to a distance of 9. 5 solar radii from the sun.

The diurnal parallax of the Sun was accurately measured during the transits of Venus in 1761 and 1769, yielding a value of 9 ″ ( compared to the present 1976 value of 8. 794148 ″).

Natalie Clarke crossed Bass Strait from Stanley, Tasmania to Venus Bay, Victoria in Australia, a distance of 240 km, in 9 hours 30 minutes on March 22, 2010.

The next time this will happen ( as seen from Earth ) will be on 22 November 2065 at about 12: 43 UTC, when Venus near superior conjunction ( with an angular diameter of 10. 6 ") will transit in front of Jupiter ( with an angular diameter of 30. 9 "); however, this will take place only 8 ° west of the Sun, and will therefore not be visible to the unaided / unprotected eye.

* 9: rites at shrines for the Genius Publicus, Fausta Felicitas, and Venus Victrix on the Capitolium

Yetunde Hawanya Tara Price ( August 9, 1972 – September 14, 2003 ) was the elder half-sister and personal assistant to leading tennis players Venus and Serena Williams.

* June 9, 2255: Transit of Venus.

* March 6, 2817: At 9: 36 UTC Venus will occult Saturn.