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MPO packed for Kourou


Date: 24 April 2018
Satellite: BepiColombo
Depicts: Mercury Planetary Orbiter
Location: European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), Noordwijk, the Netherlands
Copyright: ESA/M.Cowan

A shipping container is lowered over ESA's Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) of the ESA–JAXA BepiColombo mission ahead of its departure from ESA in the Netherlands to Kourou this week.

Last Update: 1 September 2019
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