... and reception in K-band and Ka-band. It provides routine support to deep-space missions including Mars Express, Gaia, BepiColombo, Solar Orbiter, Juice and Euclid. It will also support future ESA deep-space missions such as Hera...
... to study the least explored planet in our Solar System – Mercury – is scheduled for lift-off in October. Known as BepiColombo, the joint ESO and JAXA mission is made up of two spacecraft, the Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) and...
... capacity by around half,” says ESA’s Pier Bargellini, responsible for network operations. With new spacecraft such as BepiColombo due for launch this year and the agency’s Solar Orbiter, Euclid and Cheops programs currently...
... more than 100 years of combined experience flying space missions in our division, from the Rosetta landing, to BepiColombo and Venus Express,” says Sylvain Lodiot, Spacecraft Operations Manager for the mission. “We’re now looking forward...
...’ atmosphere. Fortunately, scientists might not have that long to wait for further phosphine detections as both ESA’s BepiColombo and NASA’s Parker Solar probe are both on target to flyby Earth’s twin planet in December 2020 and...