Venus Express on its way to... Venus
At 03:33 UTC (04:33 CET), the Soyuz-Fregat rocket carrying the Venus Express
spacecraft succesfully launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
Following the second firing of the Fregat stage, the spacecraft was successfully
placed into an escape trajectory and will reach Venus in April 2006.
http://sci.esa.int/jump.cfm?oid=38250