Moving the BepiColombo Mercury Planetary Orbiter Mechanical and Propulsion Bus Proto-Flight Model into the Phenix thermal vacuum facility
Date: 16 January 2013
Satellite: BepiColombo
Location: European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), the Netherlands
Copyright: ESA - Anneke Le Floc'h
Moving the BepiColombo Mercury Planetary Orbiter Mechanical and Propulsion Bus (MPB) Proto-Flight Model into the Phenix thermal vacuum facility.
The MPB is going to be baked out in a vacuum to remove any contaminants that would outgas in space.
Last Update: 1 September 2019
