MTM's selfie footage of BepiColombo's eight-year journey
By ESA
Quick Summary
Witness how over the last eight years, the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission has been travelling through the inner Solar System and aligning itself with Mercury's orbit. So far, it has travelled 9.9 billion km and completed nine 'planetary flybys' to help steer its way. In the video, you can see the spacecraft fly past Earth once, Venus twice, and Mercury six times.
Related Launch: BepiColombo
BepiColombo is a joint mission of the ESA and the JAXA to the planet Mercury. The mission comprises two satellites to be launched together: the Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) and the Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO). The mission will perform a comprehensive study of Mercury, including its magnetic field, magnetosphere, interior structure and surface.
- Rocket
- Ariane 5 ECA
- Pad
- Ariane Launch Area 3, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Status
- Launch Successful
- Date
- October 20, 2018
Source: ESA
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