Additionally, ESA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) are collaborating on the BepiColombo mission to Mercury. In January 2025, BepiColombo will make its sixth flyby of Mercury ...

The European Space Agency (ESA)’s BepiColombo mission has made another flyby of Mercury, capturing fascinating images of this lesser-studied inner planet. On January 8, 2025, the spacecraft made ...

That’s because these ion drives are real. The craft is actually two spacecraft in one with two different Mercury missions. The Mercury planetary orbiter will study the surface while the ...