Report for Period 10 October - 6 November 2010 (week 41 - week 44)
The reporting period, covering four weeks of Venus Express mission operations, was devoted to routine science activities and the fourth Atmosphere Drag Experiment campaign (ADE #4).
Mission operations of the Herschel space observatory continued nominally during the reporting period, with the spacecraft and subsystems all performing as expected. The second Direct Liquid Contents Measurement has been successfully performed. The approved proposals for first Open Time (OT1) observations have been announced.
Report for the period 23 October to 14 November 2010
This report covers 23 days of Rosetta mission operations. During the reporting period the spacecraft has moved out of solar conjunction and is now configured in active cruise mode in preparation of the final payload checkout and the first rendezvous manoeuvre. The NASA Deep Space Network (DSN) provided additional support to the radio science investigations during this phase.