Packing MPO
Date: 23 April 2018
Satellite: BepiColombo
Depicts: Mercury Planetary Orbiter
Location: European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), Noordwijk, the Netherlands
Copyright: ESA/M.Cowan
The Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) of the ESA-JAXA BepiColombo mission to Mercury during the final stages of packing ahead of its journey from ESA in the Netherlands to Europe's spaceport in Kourou. Facing the viewer is the side panel with the high gain antenna. To the side, engineers are working on the ultraviolet spectrometer, PHEBUS.
Last Update: 1 September 2019
