ESA's first mission to Venus lifted off from Baikonur aboard a Soyuz-FG/Fregat, sending the Venus Express orbiter on a transfer trajectory to arrive at Venus in April 2006 for a multi-year study of the planet's atmosphere, clouds, and surface.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Venus
- Payload to orbit
- 1.2 T
- Flight
- 4th
- of 10 Soyuz-FG Fregat flights
- Date and time
- 9 November 2005, 03:33 UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz-FG Fregat
- Builder
- Progress RSC
- Launch site
- 31/6, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Payload
- Planetary Science
- International designator
- 2005-045
- Launches in 2005
- 49th of 56
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