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BepiColombo – Mission to Mercury
Caption: BepiColombo’s components separating at Mercury. Image Credit: Astrium
BepiColombo, due to launch in 2015, will be only the third spacecraft to visit Mercury and the first to be sent by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). Currently undergoing tests at ESA’s European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in the Netherlands. Here are the details and objectives of this joint mission to our innermost planet which hopes to give us the best understanding of Mercury to date (…)
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2012-10-12 02:25:09
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