A European and ... in NASA’s Mariner 10 mission to Mercury in the 1970s. Colombo’s contributions also extended to tethered satellite projects for the Italian Space Agency.

The mission, a collaboration between the European and Japanese space agencies, aims to provide unprecedented data about Mercury’s geological history, magnetic field, and poles. BepiColombo carries two ...

a joint mission of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and the European Space Agency (ESA). The BepiColombo spacecraft will start orbiting Mercury in 2026. Right now, it's conducting a series ...

The European-Japanese space probe has thus come closer to Mercury than ever before, the European Space Agency (ESA ... to the researchers involved in the mission, including scientists from ...

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 ...

A European-Japanese spacecraft ... who contributed to NASA's Mariner 10 mission to Mercury in the 1970s and, two decades later, to the Italian Space Agency's tethered satellite project that ...

The European Space Agency (ESA)’s BepiColombo mission has made another flyby of Mercury, capturing fascinating images of this lesser-studied inner planet. On January 8, 2025, the spacecraft made ...

BepiColombo is a joint mission from the European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). This was the spacecraft’s sixth Mercury flyby, part of a series of “gravity ...