After Eight Years in Space, BepiColombo Is Finally Closing In on Mercury
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After Eight Years in Space, BepiColombo Is Finally Closing In on Mercury
Nearly eight years after leaving Earth, one of the most difficult planetary journeys ever attempted is entering its final stage as the BepiColombo mission closes in on Mercury. Launched in October 2018, the joint mission between the European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency has travelled billions of kilometres through the inner Solar […]
The third mission, which is currently fulfilling the challenge of the conquest of Mercury, is BepiColombo, of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). It consists of two independent scientific space modules: Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO), ESA module focused on studying the surface, geology, composition and interior of the planet; and Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO/Mio), the module of the JAXA d…
BepiColombo has left behind its transfer module and faces the arrival in Mercury. The European Space Agency confirmed the maneuver from the Darmstadt operations center. At 15:49 CEST on September 3, the ESCO controllers received the signal they expected: the Mercury Transfer Module (MTM) had successfully separated from the entire ship. The ESA official page describes the milestone as the first step of the expected arrival on the planet. The Euro…
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