BepiColombo stack – without sunshield
Date: 23 May 2017
Satellite: BepiColombo
Depicts: Flight model stack
Location: European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), Noordwijk, the Netherlands
Copyright: ESA–C. Carreau, CC BY-SA IGO 3.0
The BepiColombo stack seen in ESA's test centre in May 2017.
From bottom to top: the Mercury Transfer Module (MTM), sitting on top of an adapter, and with one folded solar array including protective cover visible to the left; the Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO), with its large radiator panel; and the Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO), with two of its side faces hidden from view by black protective covers.
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Last Update: 1 September 2019
