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 ...

This was the sixth and final flyby of Mercury for the BepiColombo spacecraft since its launch in 2018, a manoeuvre that will ...

But BepiColombo, a joint mission of the European and Japanese space agencies, seeks to change that. The spacecraft makes its sixth and final flyby on Jan. 8 before returning to enter orbit around ...

BepiColombo is the first European mission to explore Mercury, the smallest and least explored terrestrial planet in our Solar System. The European Space Agency and Japanese Aerospace Exploration ...

Three years later, a joint ESA-JAXA mission will send the BepiColombo spacecraft to Mercury, where it will map the planet and investigate its magnetosphere. Scientists hope to learn whether ice ...

The rocket will deliver into space the spacecraft of the BepiColombo mission, a joint project of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) for planet ...

BELA is a laser altimeter that will measure the planet's topography globally, including the first altitude measurements of the Southern Hemisphere. From distances of up to 1400 kilometers from Mercury ...