The ESA and JAXA are working on the BepiColombo mission to Mercury and Hera mission approaching the asteroid system Dimorphos.
Beyond Gravity's solar array drive mechanisms have been used on ESA's BepiColombo mission to Mercury and the Hera planetary defense mission.
Beyond Gravity's mechanisms have been featured in ESA's BepiColombo mission to Mercury, NASA's Artemis lunar program, and ESA's Hera planetary defense mission launched in October 2024.
The new antenna will support current flagship ESA missions including Juice, Solar Orbiter, BepiColombo, Mars Express, and Hera.
The New Norcia 3 antenna will support current ESA flagship missions such as Juice, Solar Orbiter, BepiColombo, Mars Express, and Hera.
The new deep space antenna will support ESA's flagship missions, including Juice, Solar Orbiter, BepiColombo, Mars Express, and Hera, when it becomes operational in 2026.
ESA and JAXA's joint BepiColombo mission is currently en route to Mercury.
The ESA planetary missions BepiColombo to Mercury and JUICE to Jupiter utilize instruments developed at the DLR Institute for Space Research.
M-CAM 2 and M-CAM 3 will begin taking well-lit images two minutes after closest approach when BepiColombo is around 200 km from Mercury’s surface.
The European Space Agency stated on 2024-09-02 that BepiColombo will take a slightly different trajectory during its Mercury flyby on 2024-09-04.
BepiColombo’s fourth, fifth (December 2024), and sixth (January 2025) Mercury flybys are going ahead as planned.
BepiColombo’s arrival into orbit around Mercury is delayed from December 2025 to November 2026.
BepiColombo is a joint mission between the European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency that launched in 2018 and has made several flybys of Earth, Venus, and Mercury.
BepiColombo will pass 165 km from Mercury during the 2024-09-04 flyby, which is 35 km closer than previously planned.
BepiColombo launched in October 2018.
At the moment of close approach, BepiColombo will have a velocity of 5.4 km/s with respect to Mercury and the flyby will reduce the spacecraft’s heliocentric velocity magnitude by 800 m/s.
BepiColombo’s monitoring cameras provide black-and-white snapshots at 1024 x 1024 pixel resolution.
BepiColombo uses more than 15,000 hours of solar electric propulsion operations during its cruise phase.
BepiColombo launched on an Ariane 5 from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou in October 2018.
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