BepiColombo prepares for Mercury
ESA’s first mission to Mercury, BepiColombo, is now set for final thermal tests before launching to the hottest planet in our Solar System in October 2018. Europe said farewell to the spacecraft in July when it was at the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, in its launch configuration.
BepiColombo is a joint mission to Mercury between the ESA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and consists of two science orbiters: ESA’s Mercury Planetary Orbiter and JAXA’s Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter.
More about BepiColombo:
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/BepiColombo_overview2
Best of Luck!
hope we'll get lots of videos of images of Mercury orbiter once ur set up there (colour please) lol
"Three times closer to the sun"
How does that phrase make any sense?
Every one of these missions are important so I hope for the best and wish this collaboration much success. Will follow this one just like Cassini – I wished someone else would send a probe to Venus. Besides the Russians back in the days there hasn't been anyone trying…