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ESA to conduct BepiColombo flyby amid coronavirus crisis

Controllers at ESA’s mission control centre are preparing for a gravity-assist flyby of the European-Japanese Mercury explorer BepiColombo. The manoeuvre, which will see the mission adjust its trajectory by harnessing Earth’s gravitational pull as it swings past the planet, will be performed amid restrictions ESA has implemented in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

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BepiColombo-Vorbeiflug an der Erde inmitten der Coronavirus- Krise

Die Ingenieurinnen und Ingenieure des ESA-Satellitenkontrollzentrums in Darmstadt bereiten einen Vorbeiflug der europäisch-japanischen Merkur-Mission BepiColombo an der Erde vor, um mit Hilfe der Schwerkraft Schwung für die weitere Reise zu holen. Das Manöver, bei dem die Mission ihre Flugbahn durch die Erdanziehung anpassen wird, erfolgt im Rahmen von Einschränkungen durch die Coronavirus-Pandemie.

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Astronaut Pee Will Help Build Bases on the Moon

In a strange development, a new ESA-supported study has shown that urine could actually help astronauts build bases on the Moon

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BepiColombo’s last views of Earth

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Image: Earth and the Moon as seen by the selfie cameras on board of the Bepi Colombo spacecraft in early March 2020

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Lean team readies ESA’s Mercury-bound BepiColombo for planetary flyby

One job deemed essential by the European Space Agency during the coronavirus pandemic involves shepherding the BepiColombo spacecraft through a high-speed flyby of planet Earth next month, an immovable event on the $1.8 billion mission’s seven-year journey to Mercury.

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