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Mercury
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Detailed explanation-1: -BepiColombo is an international mission comprised of two spacecraft riding together to Mercury to orbit and to study the planet from unique vantage points.
Detailed explanation-2: -BepiColombo is named in honor of Giuseppe “Bepi” Colombo (1920-1984), an Italian mathematician-engineer who explained Mercury rotating three times for every two orbits around the Sun.
Detailed explanation-3: -BepiColombo is now the third spacecraft to reach Mercury, after the Mariner 10 flyby in 1973 and NASA’s Mercury Messenger in 2011 to 2015. The spacecraft will also become the second mission to enter orbit around Mercury, after Messenger.
Detailed explanation-4: -BepiColombo launched at 01:45 GMT from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. It will make a seven year cruise to Mercury, flying by Earth once, Venus twice and Mercury six times before entering orbit.
Detailed explanation-5: -The mission, called BepiColombo, is made up of two spacecraft. ESA built the main spacecraft, the Mercury Planetary Orbiter, and JAXA supplied the Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter. BepiColombo captured its first views of Mercury during a flyby on Oct. 1, 2021.