BepiColombo spacecraft integration at the S5 facility at the Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana, from where the spacecraft will be launched. The spacecraft element shown here is the Mercury Planetary Orbiter. BepiColombo is a joint mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to explore Mercury. Scheduled for launch in October 2018, it will arrive at Mercury in 2025. it has three components: ESA's Mercury Transfer Module (MTM), ESA's Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) and JAXA's Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO). Photographed on 19 June 2018. | |
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