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

    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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    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!
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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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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