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    Mercury Planetary Orbiter alignment check

    Date: 08 Nov 2011
    Satellite: BepiColombo
    Location: Test Centre, ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands
    Copyright: ESA

    The BepiColombo Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) Structural and Thermal Model – with its thermal blankets removed – on its ground handling trolley during an alignment check in the 'Rosetta' cleanroom at ESA's European Space Research and Technology Centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, on 8 November 2011.


    Last Update: 12 Dec 2011

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