Science & Technology: Mars Express Commissioning and Early Results: "Mars Express Commissioning and Early Results
23 Jan 2004 11:00
Overall Mission Status
The Mars Express orbiter was successfully inserted into orbit around Mars on 25 December 2003. Since then several manoeuvres have been performed using the spacecraft�s main engine (plane turn manoeuvre and apocentre reductions) and several further manoeuvres will be performed, using the on-board thrusters, until the mapping orbit is reached on 28 January 2004. "