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Venus Express spacecraft to lift off November 9
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    • MOSCOW (AFP) Oct 31, 2005
     Venus Express, the European Space Agency's first mission to explore Earth's closest neighbour, will be launched November 9 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, after it was postponed earlier this month, the Russian space agency said Monday.

    "The launch is planned for November 9 at 6:33 am Moscow timefrom the Russian cosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakhstan," Roskosmos agency said in a statement.

    The new date was set during a meeting of a state commission grouping Russian space sector officials.




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