BepiColombo Nears Mercury with Twin Orbiters Ready to Unlock New Secrets
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After an eight-year journey powered by electric propulsion and nine gravity assists, ESA’s BepiColombo has shed its Mercury Transfer Module and remains on track to enter Mercury orbit on November 21; the European Mercury Planetary Orbiter and Japan’s Mio will separate in December and begin coordinated science, with routine observations starting next April as engineers monitor the critical arrival sequence.
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