Humanity's 3rd Visit to Mercury Kicks Off with the Successful Arrival of BepiColombo Mission
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Humanity's 3rd Visit to Mercury Kicks Off with the Successful Arrival of BepiColombo Mission
On September 3rd, the European Space Agency marked the successful arrival of its BepiColombo mission to Mercury, just the third spacecraft to ever visit our solar system’s innermost planet. Despite being so close to Earth, it takes roughly as much time to arrive in orbit around Mercury as it would to arrive at Pluto: more […]
The BepiColombo mission took a new step before its arrival around Mercury. The European and Japanese probe separated itself from its transfer module, which became useless after eight years of travel. Next step: the insertion into orbit, scheduled for 21 November.
ESA's BepiColombo spacecraft successfully arrives at Mercury after 8 yearsMore...
On the last day three, the BepiColomo mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) finally began its final approach phase to Mercury after almost eight years of space.The first step was to let go of the Mercury Transfer Module (MTM), whose engineering cameras leave these four minutes of selfies that summarize those almost eight years in space.
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