Questions tagged [bepicolombo]
BepiColombo is a joint mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to the planet Mercury. (from Wikipedia)
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Could Bepi-Colombo image the Messenger impact site?
Is the location of the impact site of Messenger known with sufficient detail to image it from low orbit? Does Bepi-Colombo have a high enough camera resolution to image Mercury at whatever the ...
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Why did BepiColombo use an Earth gravity assist?
Since BepiColombo didn't receive another gravity assist from a different orbiting body before reencountering Earth, wouldn't it reenter Earth's SOI with the same hyperbolic excess velocity as it ...
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Why must "Mercury’s core (be) partially molten" to explain its weak magnetism?
EarthSky.org's Top 5 Mercury mysteries that BepiColombo will solve says:
Why does Mercury have a magnetic field?
Not too many planets have a magnetic field. Among the rocky planets of the inner ...
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Where is BepiColombo?
BepiColombo is a probe that was sent towards Mercury in October 2018. It will flyby Earth in April 2020, but I would like to know where it is in the meantime. Is there a website that shows where in ...
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When an how will BepiColombo and MIO separate? (JAXA’s Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter)
edit: JAXA’s Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO) is now called MIO – Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter’s New Name.
With all the fanfare about BepiColombo (mine included) I didn't realize that there ...
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Help understanding BepiColombo's weak capture at Mercury's L1 and need for delta-differential one-way range measurements
This four-minute BBC podcast Mission to Mercury: BepiColombo spacecraft ready for launch highlights several challenges of the BepiColombo mission, including its orbital-mechanical aspects and is worth ...
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