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 – 9 November 2005 – Venus polar orbiter

* 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.

The following year he was put in charge of the Greek games that were staged in honor of the Temple of Venus Genetrix, built by Julius Caesar.

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

Adjacent to the Forum, at the junction of the same cardo, and the other decumanus, Hadrian built a large temple to the goddess Venus, which later became the Church of the Holy Sepulchre ; despite 11th century destruction, which resulted in the modern Church having a much smaller footprint, several boundary walls of Hadrian's temple have been found among the archaeological remains beneath the Church.

The Forum of Caesar, with its Temple of Venus Genetrix, was then built, among many other public works.

* Walter Venus, an aircraft engine built in Czechoslovakia in the 1930s

* Venus Automobile, a 1950s American custom car, of which less than ten were built

Mariner 5 was actually built as a backup to Mariner 4, but after the success of the Mariner 4 mission, it was modified for the Venus mission by removing the TV camera, reversing and reducing the four solar panels, and adding extra thermal insulation.

There are two castles that remain in the city: Pepoli Castle, which dates from Saracen times, and the Venus Castle, dating from the Norman period, built on top of the ancient Temple of Venus, where Venus Ericina was worshipped.

* The first temple of Venus is built.

In his Histories, Tacitus relates the account of divination rites at the famous Temple of Venus at Paphos ; according to traditional tales, this temple was founded by King Aerias, but others say Cinyras consecrated the temple, which was built right on the spot where the goddess had first stepped on the land after her birth from the sea.

Later shows built a tight theme, sometimes acting as a metaparody — such as the Emmy-winning " Moral Majority " episode where advertisers and special interest groups forced significant changes to SCTV's programming ; " Zontar ", a parody of the Larry Buchanan film Zontar, The Thing from Venus which featured an alien race seeking to kidnap SCTV's on-air talent for " a nine-show cycle plus three best-ofs " ( which was the actual deal NBC worked out with SCTV that season ); and an ambitious parody of The Godfather featuring an all-out network war over pay television between SCTV, CBS, NBC, ABC, and PBS-the last featured mafia-style hits on the sets of The Today Show, Three's Company, and The NFL Today as well as an extended sequence with guest star John Marley as an off-beat Leonard Bernstein, spoofing his Godfather role of Hollywood mogul Jack Woltz.

Venera 3 () ( Manufacturer's Designation: 3MV-3 ) was a Venera program space probe that was built and launched by the Soviet Union to explore the surface of Venus.

Later, Heliopolis and Port Venus were built and Port Nature was considerably extended.

Eusebius of Caesarea, in his Life of Constantine, describes how the site of the Holy Sepulchre, originally a site of veneration for the Christian community in Jerusalem, had been covered with earth and a temple of Venus had been built on top — although Eusebius does not say as much, this would probably have been done as part of Hadrian's reconstruction of Jerusalem as Aelia Capitolina in 135, following the destruction during the Jewish Revolt of 70 and Bar Kokhba's revolt of 132 – 135.

* c136 – 140: A Temple to Jupiter is built on the Temple Mount and a temple to Venus is built on Calvary

* 326: Constantine's mother Saint Helena visits Jerusalem and orders the destruction of Hadrian's temple to Venus which had been built on Calvary.

Hadrian built a large temple to the goddess Venus, which later became the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

A Temple was built to Venus near the Circus Maximus.

Under the Antonine Dynasty, a Venus temple was built there.

:* Venus Breeze is a three-blade razor with shave gel bars built into the head of the razor.

In 1978, the end of the program saw a return to the inner solar system, with the Pioneer Venus Orbiter and Multiprobe, this time using orbital insertion rather than flyby missions.

As well as part of the title song ( including the origin of a stanza about Venus ) using the tune " Rosin the Bow ", two verses of " The Captain is a Father to His Crew " are sung, plus choral verses of " Jet Song ", and a complete and particularly beautiful version of " The Grand Canal ".

Had it reached Venus, it would have entered another mode of 3-axis stabilization, fixing on the Sun and Earth, and using for the first time a parabolic antenna to relay data.

It also launched many probes to the Moon, Mars, Venus, and even Halley's Comet ( using the 4-stage D-1e version ).

The flyby probe performed a gravitational assist maneuver using Venus, and continued its mission to intercept the comet.

The flyby probe performed a gravitational assist maneuver using Venus, and continued its mission to intercept the comet.

Both unmanned orbiters were to map the surface of Venus using high resolution imaging systems.

He also described the method for using the transit of Venus to measure the distance of the Earth from the Sun, which was later advocated by Edmund Halley and adopted as the basis of the first effective measurement of the Astronomical Unit.

Instead of bands, Plato's student Eudoxus developed a planetary model using concentric spheres for all the planets, with three spheres each for his models of the Moon and the Sun and four each for the models of the other five planets, thus making 26 spheres in all. Callippus modified this system, using five spheres for his models of the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, and Mars and retaining four spheres for the models of Jupiter and Saturn, thus making 33 spheres in all.

This unmanned orbiter was to map the surface of Venus using high resolution imaging systems.

This unmanned orbiter was to map the surface of Venus using high resolution imaging systems.

Presently the AU is determined with high precision using radar measurements of Venus and other nearby planets and asteroids, and by tracking interplanetary spacecraft in their orbits around the Sun through the Solar System.

In 2004 a Purdue University communications professor said that based on research she conducted using questionnaires and interviews, men and women are not so different and " books like John Gray's Men are From Mars and Women are From Venus and Deborah Tannen's You Just Don't Understand tell men that being masculine means dismissing feelings and downplaying problems.

As of 1973, there have been no manned interplanetary missions, although the Apollo Applications Program planned a three month interplanetary mission to Venus using Apollo hardware in the 1970s.

Magellan arrived at Venus in mid-1990 and mapped the entire surface of Venus using specialized radar instruments.

The spacecraft will have a six year interplanetary cruise to Mercury using solar-electric propulsion and gravity assists from the Moon, Earth, Venus and eventual gravity capture at Mercury.

Don P. Mitchell recently came across the original Venera imaging data while researching the Soviet Venus program, and reconstructed the images using modern image processing software.

The thought of using magnets for propulsion continues to this day and has been dreamed of since at least 1897 when John Munro published his fictional story " A Trip to Venus ".

The surface of Venus, as imaged by the Magellan probe using SAR

The Venera 15 and Venera 16 followed later by the Magellan space probe mapped the surface of Venus over several years using synthetic-aperture radar.

A disaster occurs, the NERVA technology is abandoned as unsafe, and a mission to Mars is launched using chemical rocket engines with a slingshot gravity assist via Venus allowing an expedition to arrive on Mars in 1986.