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Bookmark or Share- ESA - BepiColombo - European Space AgencyHot and more difficult for an orbiter to reach than Saturn, the planet long eluded scientists. With its two probes, BepiColombo will be the second mission ever to orbit Mercury and the most complex one.
- ESA Science & Technology - Fact SheetBepiColombo 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 - BepiColombo overview - European Space AgencyOne of ESA’s cornerstone missions, it will study and understand the composition, geophysics, atmosphere, magnetosphere and history of Mercury, the least explored planet in the inner Solar System. Mission: BepiColombo will provide the best understanding of Mercury to date.
- BepiColombo - NASA ScienceBepiColombo is an international mission comprised of two spacecraft riding together to Mercury to orbit and to study the planet from unique vantage points. The European Space Agency (ESA) provided one orbiter. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) supplied the second orbiter.
- ESA Science & Technology - SummaryGiuseppe (Bepi) Colombo (1920-1984) was a mathematician and engineer of astonishing imagination, whose bald head and grey moustache were familiar in the corridors of both ESA and NASA. Apart from his work on Mercury, Colombo invented tethers for linking satellites together.
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