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Bepi Colombo (2018)
What we know of Mercury and its environment up to now comes from the results collected during missions Mariner 10 and MESSENGER and during observations from Earth. Bepi Colombo will allow us to enrich our knowledge of the planet and its environment. The LPP is involved in two instruments provide the scientific charge of the mission.
BepiColombo has been launched from Kourou on 19 october 2018.
After a long journey, the two probes MPO and Mio will be placed in orbit around Mercury at the end of 2025. During this journey the probes benefit from the gravitational assistance of the Earth, Venus and Mercury itself, allowing flybys that bring a harvest of scientific results.
- BepiColombo images its high-gain antenna for the fisrt time. ESA/BepiColombo/MTM , CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
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