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| BepiColombo Mercury mission to be launched in 2015 |
| BepiColombo, an ESA mission to the planet Mercury in collaboration with the Japanese space agency, JAXA, is now planned for launch in a window opening in August 2015. |
| Date: 28 Feb 2012 |
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| BepiColombo Mercury explorer to be launched on Ariane |
| Reaching one of the most mysterious planets in our Solar System takes enormous power and finesse. ESA has now firmly entrusted its precious Mercury explorer to Europe's largest rocket - the Ariane 5.
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| Date: 15 Sep 2011 |
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| ESA's Mercury mapper feels the heat |
| Key components of the ESA-led Mercury mapper BepiColombo have been tested in a specially upgraded European space simulator. ESA's Large Space Simulator is now the most powerful in the world and the only facility capable of reproducing Mercury's hellish environment for a full-scale spacecraft. |
| Date: 18 Jan 2011 |
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| BepiColombo Industrial Space Day |
| The BepiColombo Industrial Space Day took place on 6 March at ESTEC. The objective of this one-day event was to inform the European industry about the procurement plans and the process and planning that will be followed to issue the invitation to tenders of the subcontractor items. |
| Date: 12 Mar 2007 |
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| BepiColombo To Enter Implementation Phase |
| The final approval for the BepiColombo mission to enter the implementation phase has been given last Friday by the Science Programme Committee (SPC) and Astrium GmbH has been selected as Prime Contractor for this scientific Corner Stone mission. |
| Date: 26 Feb 2007 |
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| BepiColombo Planetary Orbiter Payload Selection |
| With the approval of the Solar System Working Group (SSWG), Solar System Advisory Committee (SSAC) and Science Programme Committee (SPC), the selected payload for the Mercury Planetary Orbiter now enters the final stages of the definition phase. |
| Date: 18 Nov 2004 |
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| Request for Proposal for BepiColombo Mercury Planetary Orbiter Payload |
| The European Space Agency (ESA) solicits proposals of scientific investigations for the Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) of the BepiColombo mission. This Request for Proposal (RFP) is open to scientists from the Member States of ESA, Japan and other communities with which reciprocity or specific agreements exist.
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| Date: 27 Feb 2004 |
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| ESA's good-natured DevILS |
| The European Space Agency (ESA) has started a 50-million-euro initiative to bring together Europe's leading aerospace companies for the next four years. The aim of DevILS is to develop 'intelligent', lightweight spacecraft systems that ESA can use on future missions. Having these 'plug-and-play' systems will allow Europe to create lighter spacecraft that perform better. |
| Date: 24 Oct 2002 |
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| ESA to look for the missing link in gravity |
| Although you can never be certain of predicting future developments in science, there is a good chance of a fundamental breakthrough in physics soon. With a series of unique experiments and missions designed to test our understanding of gravity, the European Space Agency (ESA) hopes to get to the very bottom of it. |
| Date: 11 Sep 2002 |
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| Call for submission of Intents to Propose experiments for the BepiColombo mission to Mercury |
| The European Space Agency (ESA) and the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) of Japan announce a call for submission of Intents to Propose for experiments for the BepiColombo mission to Mercury. The deadline for the submission of Intents to Propose (ITP) experiments for the BepiColombo cornerstone mission is 23 July 2001. |
| Date: 03 Jul 2001 |
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| Future missions may have a major impact! |
| A 100 metre-wide space rock known as 2001 EC16 paid a passing visit to Earth's vicinity
earlier today. As it swept by at a little over 1.7 million km from Earth - approximately four
and a half lunar distances - the only people to pay it much attention were a dedicated
band of astronomers. |
| Date: 23 Mar 2001 |
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| ESA's solar system missions to get star billing in Nice |
| Geophysicists attending next week's General Assembly of
the European Geophysical Society in Nice won't just be discussing the latest scientific research about the Earth. They will also be turning their attention to other bodies within our solar system and the missions Europe is sending to explore them. |
| Date: 20 Mar 2001 |
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| Let's go! ESA's Future Science missions get full approval |
| At its 92nd meeting, on 11-12 October 2000, ESA's Science Programme Committee took the final
step to consolidate the future of the science programme by unanimously endorsing the
recommendations of the Space Science Advisory Committee of 15 September, which proposed a
package to be implemented in the years 2008-2013. |
| Date: 13 Oct 2000 |
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| Near-Earth Object meeting has quite an impact |
| Representatives of ESA and many other European organisations gathered in
Paris yesterday to discuss the threat from Near-Earth Objects (NEOs).
Non-ESA participants included the Secretary General of the International
Astronomical Union, delegates from several ESA member states, experts from
a number of astronomical observatories, including the European Southern
Observatory, and a representative from the European Community. |
| Date: 17 May 2000 |
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| Mercury session at EGS Call for Papers |
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It is planned to publish the proceedings of the EGS PS2 session dedicated to the planet Mercury,
in Planetary and Space Science. This special issue is also open to contributions which were not
presented in Nice, provided that they are directly related to Mercury science. Papers on missions,
technologies and instrumentation specific to the exploration of Mercury are also invited.
Deadline for submissions 31 July 2000
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| Date: 12 May 2000 |
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| Returns to Mercury - EGS April 2000 |
| A special session dedicated to the planet Mercury and its scientific exploration will be held at the European Geophysical Society General Assembly, 25-29 April 2000, Nice, France. |
| Date: 29 Oct 1999 |
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| PR 40-1999: ESA's Mercury Mission Named BepiColombo in Honour of a Space Pioneer |
| Meeting in Naples 20-23 September, the European Space Agency's Science Programme Committee
recognised the achievements of the late Giuseppe Colombo of the University of Padua by adopting his
name for the Mercury project now being planned. Almost everything known until now about the planet
Mercury comes from three passes by NASA's Mariner 10 in 1974/75, which were inspired by Colombo's
calculations. He suggested how to put that spacecraft into an orbit that would bring it back repeatedly to
Mercury. The Italian scientist also explained, as an unsuspected resonance, Mercury's peculiar habit of
rotating three times in every two revolutions of the Sun. |
| Date: 29 Sep 1999 |
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