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BepiColombo - Exploring Mercury

Europe's first mission to Mercury

Welcome to ESA's website for the BepiColombo scientific community and the BepiColombo Science Ground Segment. The target audience for this site is scientists and engineers involved in the BepiColombo mission. ESA pages for the general public interested in the BepiColombo mission can be found here .

Position at Leicester University

5 September 2022The University of Leicester School of Physics and Astronomy is seeking to make an academic appointment at Lecturer (Grade 8) level with a focus on Planetary Science and/or Planetary Science-related Space Instrumentation and/or technology research. Advert closes midnight on: 12 Oct 2022.

ESA is looking for new Research Fellows in Space Science in 2023

1 September 2022ESA Fellowships provide a unique opportunity to work with scientists and engineers at the forefront of space science, and experience first-hand how ESA works. Are you an early career PhD scientist from an ESA Member State working in heliophysics, planetary science, astrophysics or fundamental physics? Join us!

BepiColombo at EPSC

25 August 2022The Europlanet Science Congress 2022 will take place at the Palacio de Congresos de Granada, Spain, 18–23 September 2022. The meeting will cover the entire scope of planetary science however on Monday 19 September EPSC hosts a Mercury session, where many talks are related to the goals and first results of the BepiColombo mission.

BEPICOLOMBO'S SECOND MERCURY FLYBY - A GREAT SUCCESS

24 June 2022The closest approach took place at 09:44 UTC (11:44 CEST) on 23 June 2022, about 200 km above the planet’s surface. Instrument teams on both spacecraft shared first insights from this flyby at our SWT meeting in July. It was interesting to compare the data with what instruments measured on our first flyby.

BepiColombo SWT meeting - 11-14 July @ ESOC

29 June 2022Our first in person SWT meeting in this decade will take place at the ESA Science Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany from 11-14 July. The focus of the meeting is to discus first results from our second Mercury flyby and to obtain an overview on the readiness level of each instrument for the Mercury orbit science phase.

News - BepiColombo’s close Venus encounter

10 May 2022A stunning sequence of 89 images taken by the monitoring cameras on board the European-Japanese BepiColombo mission to Mercury, as the spacecraft made a close approach of Venus on 10 August 2021.

Where is BepiColombo & Attitude Viewer

Interactive 3D tools showing the spacecraft attitude and where the BepiColombo spacecraft is on any given day from launch in October 2018 to just beyond the end of its cruise phase end of 2025. To play with the tools click here.