Venus Express: Lessons from 8 Years of Science Operations

Nomenclature ASPERA= Analyzer of Space Plasma and Energetic Atoms EDF = Experiment Definition Files EPS = Experiment Planning System ESA = European Space Agency ESAC = European Space Astronomy Centre located near Madrid, Spain ESOC = European Space Operations Centre located near Darmstadt, Germany EVF = Event Files FOV = Field Of View HGA = High Gain Antenna ITL = instrument timeline JPL = Jet Propulsion Laboratory MAG = Venus Express Magnetometer MAPPS = Mapping and Planning Software NASA = National Aeronautics and Space Agency (USA) OCM = Orbital Correction Maneuver OFPM = Operations Files Push Mechanism ORFA = Operations Request File Acknowledger PFS = Planetary Fourier Spectrometer PTR = pointing request SAP = Science Activity Plan SPICAV/SOIR = Ultraviolet and Infrared Atmospheric Spectrometer VCO = Venus Climate Orbiter (Japan), a.k.a Akatsuki VeRa = Venus Radio Science Experiment VEX = Venus Express VIRTIS = Visible/Ultraviolet/Near-infrared Mapping Spectrometer VMC = Venus Monitoring Camera VMOC = Venus Express Mission Operations Centre VOI = Venus orbit insertion VSOC = Venus Express Science Operations Centre