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BepiColombo, the joint ESA/JAXA mission to Mercury, has experienced an issue that is preventing the spacecraft's thrusters from operating at full power. BepiColombo is a three-part spacecraft ...

'It really shows just how dynamic Mercury's space environment is.' When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When the BepiColombo Mercury ...

The spacecraft is preparing to enter the planet's orbit in 2025, firing its thrusters against the Sun's powerful gravitational pull. Reading time 3 minutes A probe is familiarizing itself with the ...

Space probe BepiColombo was launched in 2018 and is currently zipping through the vast blackness of the solar system on its way to explore Mercury. But on its journey, it has just flown past Venus, ...

The mission team is hoping BepiColombo can make it to its next gravity assist so that it can arrive at the planet in 2025. Reading time 2 minutes For more than five years, a pair of spacecraft have ...

The BepiColombo spacecraft snapped a photo of the newly named Vivaldi crater as it sped by Mercury on Sept. 4, 2024. Credit: ESA / JAXA / BepiColombo / MTM A robotic orbiter just took its first ...

Mercury may be the least-explored planet in the inner Solar System, but the ongoing BepiColombo mission is creeping ever closer to the neighbor in our cosmic backyard. On June 23, BepiColombo ...