A joint venture between ESA & JAXA, the BepiColumbo spacecraft completed its third flyby of Mercury today. In addition to the three flybys of Mercury, it performed two previous flybys of Venus and...
A joint venture between ESA & JAXA, the BepiColumbo spacecraft completed its third flyby of Mercury today. In addition to the three flybys of Mercury, it performed two previous flybys of Venus and one of Earth and will perform three additional flybys of Mercury all in service of putting it in orbit around Mercury in 2025 so it can study the messenger planet.
(apologies for the previous post - due to how ESA's website functions, the link I copied was not a direct link to the topic in question)
A joint venture between ESA & JAXA, the BepiColumbo spacecraft completed its third flyby of Mercury today. In addition to the three flybys of Mercury, it performed two previous flybys of Venus and one of Earth and will perform three additional flybys of Mercury all in service of putting it in orbit around Mercury in 2025 so it can study the messenger planet.
(apologies for the previous post - due to how ESA's website functions, the link I copied was not a direct link to the topic in question)
Love the flyby picture! Really cool to see day/night from another planet.