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The space mission "BepiColombo" will be launched on 20 October from the Guana Space Base, France, and will include two probes from Europe and Japan bound for Mercury.
The European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) were investigating the mission, a third attempt to reach the nearest planet.
Mercury seems to be a simpler task compared to Mars, Jupiter and Saturn: it revolves around the Sun in just 88 Earth days.
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The earth revolves around the sun at incredible speed and is also acquired by any vehicle or probe. But the rotation speed of Mercury around the sun is much lower than that of the Earth. Therefore, to achieve it, the speed of the probe resulting from the rotation of the Earth must first be reduced, and then the acceleration must allow the probe to reduce the distance that separates the Earth of Mercury. At the end of the track, the speed should be reduced again. This is usually done thanks to the gravity of the planet to which the spacecraft is getting closer.
But Mercury is not a big planet and is not as serious as Earth and Jupiter. In this case, the probe is forced to perform a number of complex maneuvers invented by the mathematician Giuseppe Colombo, whose mission is called "BepiColombo".
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The European and Japanese probes will operate in two different orbits of Mercury. The European probe "Mercury Planetary Orbiter" is dedicated to the study of the surface of the planet and weighs 1230 kg.
The mercury magnetospheric orbit, weighing only 285 kg, will fly in an oval orbit of 480 to 11460 km and will be devoted to the study of the planet's magnetic field and solar wind particles.
Source: TASS
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