BepiColombo Mercury Planetary Orbiter on its way to join the transfer module
Date: 27 April 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: 1 September 2019
