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    BepiColombo Mercury Planetary Orbiter on its way to join the transfer module

    Date: 27 Apr 2012
    Satellite: BepiColombo
    Depicts: MPO on its way to join the transfer module
    Location: Test Centre, ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands
    Copyright: ESA/Anneke Le'Floch

    The BepiColombo Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) Structural and Thermal Model (STM) being transferred from its ground handling trolley (lower right of the image) to the Mercury Transfer Module (MTM; in the foreground) by an overhead crane.


    Last Update: 27 Apr 2012

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