ESA BepiColombo Project Scientist. “We needed nine flybys (one at Earth, two at Venus, and six at Mercury) to slow down our spacecraft and bring it into a good position to enter the orbit of ...

It has a short year, taking a trip around the sun every 88 Earth days. ForbesNASA Is Sending A Vacuum Cleaner To The Surface Of The MoonBy Amanda Kooser ESA’s objective with BepiColombo is to ...

This is one of a series of images taken by the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission on 8 January 2025 as the spacecraft sped by for its sixth and final gravity assist manoeuvre at the planet. Flying over ...

Venus and Earth. Fortunately, these flybys are proving invaluable to science. During a June 2023 flyby of Mercury, BepiColombo encountered several characteristics of the planet's magnetic field.

"BepiColombo's main mission phase may only start two years from now, but all six of its flybys of Mercury have given us invaluable new information about the little-explored planet." The ...

the BepiColombo spacecraft), using an integration ... Despite Mercury being about 39% as far from the sun as Earth is, its surface temperature can range from -290 degrees Fahrenheit (-180 degrees ...

Europe's BepiColombo mission will enter orbit of the ... the mission's dual probes during the final approach. That will leave the ESA's Planetary Orbiter and JAXA’s Mercury Magnetospheric ...

The BepiColombo spacecraft is due to start orbiting Mercury next year, but a recent flyby has captured breathtaking images of its pockmarked surface ...

New photos of Mercury's mysterious north pole reveal a glimpse of the permanently dark, frigid craters that may hold ice dozens of feet thick, even though Mercury is the closest planet to the sun.

BepiColombo, a joint ESA-JAXA mission, made its closest approach on January 8, 2025. Flying 295 km above Mercury, it photographed icy craters, volcanic plains, and the planet's largest impact crater.

“One needs a lot of fuel with a very big rocket for launch, or one can use the help of the planets and do planetary flybys,” adds Johannes Benkhoff, ESA BepiColombo Project Scientist. “We needed nine ...