Replay of the BepiColombo media briefing held at ESA’s technical centre in the Netherlands on 6 July 2017. The mission, its background, technological challenges and current status were presented.
Mercury is the least understood of all the inner rocky planets in our Solar System. Knowing its evolution is crucial to understand the evolution of our entire Solar System. BepiColombo, Europe’s first mission to Mercury, will be launched in 2018.
Currently undergoing final testing at ESA’s Space Research and Technology Centre in the Netherlands, in between being moved from one test chamber to the next, the whole spacecraft stack was presented to the media: the European and the Japanese orbiters as well as the transfer module.
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