ESA taps Astrium to build Venus Express
Astrium will design and build the Venus Express spacecraft for the European Space Agency (ESA) under an 82.4 million euro ($90.6 million) contract, the company said Jan. 28. Venus Express, which would be the first European spacecraft to visit Venus, is scheduled to launch in November 2005 from...
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