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 .

    An overview paper about the mission and its science goals was published in 2021: Benkhoff, J., Murakami, G., Baumjohann, W., et al. BepiColombo - Mission Overview and Science Goals. Space Sci Rev 217, 90 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-021-00861-4

    Next SWT in Münster
    30 June 2023Registration is open for our up-coming Science Working Team Meeting. The meeting will be hosted by our MERTIS colleagues in Münster, Germany. The meeting will be held from 18-21 September 2023 @Münster castle, Schloßplatz 2 - Center of the Münster University.
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    Flyby#3 completed successfully
    20 June 2023Yes we did it again! On June 19 at around 19:34 BepiColombo successfully performed its third flyby. We got some nice results from our instruments and the monitoring cameras on MTM. Have a look and read more! Thanks to our communications and Mcam expert team for preparing this nice web story.
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    Mercury seen before flyby#3
    19 June 2023Teams at ESAC and ESOC are ready for the upcoming flyby. First data were already obtained. The spacecraft feels the heat of the Sun and Mercury. We also got a first view of Mercury while approaching.
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    BepiColombo 3rd Flyby
    18 June 2023The next Mercury flyby if Mercury is coming up. Closest Approach will be on 19 June at 19:34:25 UTC. The estimated flyby distance is about 236 km from the surface.
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    Archival Research Visitor Programme
    9 March 2023To increase the scientific return from its space science missions, ESA welcomes applications from scientists interested in pursuing research based on publicly available data in the ESA Space Science Archives. The Archives host data from all current and past ESA space science missions in astronomy, planetary science, and heliophysics.
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    BepiColombo_Xmas_2022
    21 December 2022Dear friends of the BepiColombo mission, We wish you a relaxing Holiday Season with family and friends and a Happy New Year! Again, another year with a lot of special moments comes to an end: We saw our target planet for the second time though the “Eyes” of our monitoring camera in June.
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    SWT#21 Japan
    6 October 2022Registration is open for our up-coming Science Working Team Meeting. The meeting will be hosted by our Japanese colleagues in Japan. The meeting will be held from 21-24 November @Integrated Research Center, Kobe University. Note: VISA or Covid restrictions may apply.
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    Spacecraft 3D Model

    Do you want to explore our spacecraft in more detail? If yes click 3D-MODEL

    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.

     

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