Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On June 23, 2022, the joint European/Japanese Space Agencies’ mission to Mercury, BepiColombo, took a second swing past the solar ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An image of the planet Mercury taken by the European BepiColombo spacecraft during a gravity-assist flyby. The European-Japanese ...

After spending nearly eight years crossing the inner Solar System, ESA and JAXA’s BepiColombo spacecraft has reached one of ...

Teams from across ESA and industry have worked continuously over the past four months to overcome a glitch that prevented BepiColombo's thrusters from operating at full power. The ESA/JAXA mission is ...

For most space missions, the launch is the headline moment. For BepiColombo, the real milestone arrives years later. After ...

The second superclose flyby of BepiColombo, a space probe owned by ESA (European Space Agency) and (JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency). Second Superclose Mercury Flyby Completed by BepiColombo!

BepiColombo, the current spacecraft studying Mercury, is a joint mission of the European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. Launched October 20, 2018, it’s actually two ...

The ESA-JAXA BepiColombo mission to Mercury blasted off on an Ariane 5 from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou at 01:45:28 GMT on 20 October on its exciting mission to study the mysteries of the Solar ...

The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission is gearing up for its second close flyby of Mercury on 23 June. ESA's spacecraft operation team is guiding BepiColombo through six gravity assists of the planet before ...