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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lockheed Martin provided the spacecraft bus and mission operations. A NASA mission to Mercury that was launched in 2004 and arrived to Mercury in 2011. LASP built the MASCS instrument to study Mercury ...

29. MoonSwatch Mission to Mercury The Mercury doesn’t bring the vibrancy and verve of the more colourful MoonSwatches, while also placing second in the Best Imitation of the OG Speedmaster ...

NASA had not yet put a man in orbit around the Earth. That would happen during the successive one-man missions of Project Mercury. But the Apollo project required a number of more advanced ...