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“Fundamentally, we want to learn about the origins of this planet and how it came to be like it is.”
Artist's illustration of BepiColombo's propulsion module (bottom) separating from the spacecraft's two science orbiters.
ESA/ATG medialab and NASA/JPL
The BepiColombo mission cleared a major milestone this week in the final stretch of an eight-year interplanetary voyage to Mercury, the hard-to-reach, scorching hot iron world at the Solar System’s innermost frontier.
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"Arriving to Mercury is not as simple as other missions."
The European Space Agency's (ESA) BepiColombo mission to the planet Mercury faces its most critical manoeuvre yet, as a pair of…
In a critical maneuver on Thursday, the mission successfully deployed its two science orbiters—beginning the final phases of its…
The BepiColombo mission's two science orbiters will separate from their transfer module at around 8 a.m. EDT on Thursday (Sept.…
For most space missions, the launch is the headline moment. For BepiColombo, the real milestone arrives years later.
A high-risk final approach to Mercury begins as BepiColombo splits from its transfer module after travelling 10 billion km over…
