ESA Science & Technology - BepiColombo
BepiColombo is Europe's first mission to Mercury. Launched on 20 October 2018, it is on a seven year journey to the smallest and least explored terrestrial planet in our Solar System. When it arrives at Mercury in late 2025, it will endure temperatures in excess of 350 °C and gather data during its one-year nominal mission, with a possible one ...
ESA Science & Technology - Summary
Apr 14, 2020 · BepiColombo is the Agency's first experience of sending a spacecraft to a region even hotter than Venus. The way the journey from Earth to Mercury is being carried out is also a first. After launch into Earth-escape orbit, the MCS underwent a near-Earth commissioning phase.
ESA Science & Technology - BepiColombo takes last snaps of …
Apr 10, 2020 · The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission completed its first flyby on 10 April, as the spacecraft came less than 12 700 km from Earth's surface at 06:25 CEST, steering its trajectory towards the final destination, Mercury.
ESA Science & Technology - BepiColombo flies by Venus en route …
Oct 15, 2020 · The ESA-JAXA BepiColombo mission has completed the first of two Venus flybys needed to set it on course with the Solar System's innermost planet, Mercury. The closest approach of the flyby took place at 03:58 GMT (05:58 CEST) this morning at a distance of about 10 720 km from the planet's surface.
ESA Science & Technology - Fact Sheet - European Space Agency
Sep 5, 2019 · BepiColombo is Europe's first mission to Mercury. Launched on 20 October 2018, it is on a seven-year journey to the smallest and least explored terrestrial planet in our Solar System. When it arrives at Mercury in late 2025, it will endure temperatures in excess of 350 °C and gather data during its one-year nominal mission, with a possible one ...
ESA Science & Technology - News Archive
Sep 5, 2019 · BepiColombo is Europe's first mission to Mercury. Launched on 20 October 2018, it is on a seven year journey to the smallest and least explored terrestrial planet in our Solar System.
ESA Science & Technology - BepiColombo journey timeline
Mar 27, 2020 · On its seven-year journey to Mercury, the European-Japanese mission BepiColombo takes advantage of the gravity of Earth, Venus and Mercury to adjust its trajectory and reach its final orbit. Launched in 2018, the spacecraft performs overall nine gravity assist flyby manoeuvres before entering orbit around the Solar System's innermost planet in ...
ESA Science & Technology - Science with BepiColombo
Mar 30, 2020 · BepiColombo will observe interplanetary dust from comets or asteroids and other space debris to gain a better picture of the inner Solar System, and to better characterise a number of processes occurring in and near the Sun—strong solar shock waves, for example, which we do not see around the Earth.
ESA Science & Technology - Venus setting
Oct 16, 2020 · During its seven-year cruise to the smallest and innermost planet of the Solar System, BepiColombo makes one flyby at Earth, two at Venus and six at Mercury to brake against the gravitational pull of the Sun in order to enter orbit around Mercury.
ESA Science & Technology - BepiColombo magnetometer boom …
Oct 25, 2018 · The 2.5 m long boom carrying the magnetometer sensors onboard ESA's BepiColombo Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) has been successfully deployed. The sensors are now prepared to measure the magnetic field on the way to Mercury.