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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An image of the planet Mercury taken by the European BepiColombo spacecraft during a gravity-assist flyby. The European-Japanese ...

Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has offered a definitive date for the BepiColombo mission’s arrival at Mercury.

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The mission team is hoping BepiColombo can make it to its next gravity assist so that it can arrive at the planet in 2025. Reading time 2 minutes For more than five years, a pair of spacecraft have ...

The spacecraft is preparing to enter the planet's orbit in 2025, firing its thrusters against the Sun's powerful gravitational pull. Reading time 3 minutes A probe is familiarizing itself with the ...

The BepiColombo orbiter probe has passed within 552 km (343 miles) of Venus as it completed one of nine flybys on its way to the planet Mercury. Shortly after the close encounter, the ESA/JAXA joint ...

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Space probe BepiColombo was launched in 2018 and is currently zipping through the vast blackness of the solar system on its way to explore Mercury. But on its journey, it has just flown past Venus, ...