ESA Gears Up For 2018 BepiColombo Launch To Mercury

Credit: BepiColombo: NASA
LYON, France—The test phase of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) BepiColombo probe, scheduled for an October 2018 launch to Mercury, is in full swing and scientists are hoping for major progress in understanding the planet’s physics. The probe was named after Giuseppe “Bepi” Colombo, an Italian...

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