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Nearly three years after lifting off from French Guiana, the BepiColombo space probe has now set its sights on Mercury for the first time, completing a “flawless” flyby over the weekend. The maneuver resulted in the probe’s first images of its target p… Continue reading “Flawless” flyby for BepiColombo turns up its first photos of Mercury
The BepiColombo orbiter probe has passed within 552 km (343 miles) of Venus as it completed one of nine flybys on its way to the planet Mercury. Shortly after the close encounter, the ESA/JAXA joint mission snapped a picture of Venus at a distance of 1… Continue reading BepiColombo and Solar Orbiter have close encounter with Venus
Next week, two deep-space probes will make flybys of Venus within 30 hours of each other on their way to the inner reaches of the solar system. On August 9, the Solar Orbiter will pass by the planet often called “Earth’s twin”, followed by the BepiColombo Mercury orbiter on August 10.
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Mercury’s disproportionately massive core may be the result of the Sun’s powerful magnetic influence rather than the consequence of a cataclysmic collision with another body in the ancient past, according to the results of a new study.Continue ReadingC… Continue reading Magnetism, not cataclysm may be the cause of Mercury’s giant iron core
The joint ESA-JAXA BepiColombo probe has successfully completed the first of two scheduled flybys of Venus. At 03:58 GMT (05:58 am CEST) today, the robotic spacecraft came to within 10,720 km (6,661 miles) of the planet’s surface in a slingshot maneuve… Continue reading BepiColombo makes the first of two Venus flybys on its way to Mercury
ESA has released “sonifications” of the telemetry sent back by the BepiColombo Mercury probe during its April 20, 2020 flyby of Earth. Sounding like a series of atonal symphony pieces, the five audio recordings were captured by two instruments installe… Continue reading BepiColombo makes cosmic music during Earth flyby
The BepiColombo deep-space probe has successfully made its flyby of Earth on its journey to explore the planet Mercury. On April 10, 2020, at 6:25 am CEST, the joint ESA/JAXA mission passed within 12,700 km (7,891 mi) of the Earth’s surface as the spac… Continue reading BepiColombo completes close encounter with Earth
This week Earth will be visited by a spacecraft that has traveled 1.4 billion km to get here. But no, it’s not aliens – it’s BepiColombo, a European-Japanese mission that’s just slingshotting around our planet for a gravitational speed boost on its rou… Continue reading Earth to be buzzed this week by spacecraft heading to Mercury
The coronavirus situation in Europe has forced ESA to temporarily suspend a number of its deep-space missions. To reduce the risk to space agency personnel from the virus, the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany is reducing on… Continue reading Coronavirus lockdown reaches space as ESA partially shuts down spacecraft
BepiColombo is scheduled to launch from French Guiana at 9:45 PM ET on October 19. Continue reading Humanity’s Next Mission to Mercury Will Test Einstein’s Theory of Relativity