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    BepiColombo MMO inside the LSS

    Date: 04 Oct 2010
    Satellite: BepiColombo
    Depicts: Thermal test model of the Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter
    Location: Large Space Simulator, ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
    Copyright: ESA/JAXA

    BepiColombo's Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO) in the Large Space Simulator (LSS) at ESTEC, The Netherlands. The octagonal spacecraft is Japan's contribution to BepiColombo and will explore Mercury's magnetic field.

     


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