BepiColombo

international space mission

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Mercury

  • Messenger: Mercury
    In Mercury: Mariner 10, radar, and Messenger

    … (JAXA) launched a Mercury mission, BepiColombo, that is scheduled to arrive at Mercury in 2025 and spend one year in orbit. The mission is named after Italian mathematician Giuseppe (“Bepi”) Colombo, who discovered that Mercury’s rotation period is two-thirds of its orbital period. The spacecraft has two parts: ESA’s Mercury…

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