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 ...

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the ESA marveled. What's more, these craters could harbor frozen water — a possibility the mission intends to soon investigate. On Mercury's northern hemisphere, the cratered surface has been ...

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 ...

The launch was broadcast live on JAXA's official website. "The mission comprises two science orbiters: ESA's Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) and JAXA's Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO).

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 ...