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BepiColombo Launch & Cruise Phase

nprev View Member Profile	Oct 17 2018, 03:23 PM Post #1
Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8790 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602	The adventure is about to begin! We'll discuss it here. Link to ESA coverage, launch currently slated for 20 Oct/0145 UTC. GO BEPICOLOMBO!!! -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.

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Explorer1 View Member Profile	Oct 20 2018, 03:00 AM Post #2
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2115 Joined: 13-February 10 From: Ontario Member No.: 5221	Solar arrays deployed! And a day later, first images from the engineering cameras! http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/20...mage_from_space

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nprev BepiColombo Launch & Cruise Phase Oct 17 2018, 03:23 PM

nprev 30 min until ESA feed goes live. Oct 20 2018, 12:45 AM

Bjorn Jonsson A very interesting followup to the Messenger missi... Oct 20 2018, 12:53 AM

nprev Should be a fascinating mission. T- 30 min now, f... Oct 20 2018, 01:16 AM

nprev GO!!!!!!! Oct 20 2018, 01:47 AM

Bjorn Jonsson WOW!!! So far so good. Oct 20 2018, 01:52 AM

nprev Spacecraft separation. Thread title edited to r... Oct 20 2018, 02:13 AM

Bjorn Jonsson It's alive!! Signal acquisition! Oct 20 2018, 02:27 AM

MahFL QUOTE (Bjorn Jonsson @ Oct 20 2018, 03:27... Oct 20 2018, 02:50 AM

Explorer1 Solar arrays deployed! And a day later, first ... Oct 20 2018, 03:00 AM

nprev Antenna deployment images. Think we're likel... Oct 21 2018, 07:52 PM

Roby72 Only the engineering cameras will be active during... Oct 21 2018, 09:21 PM

charborob QUOTE (Roby72 @ Oct 21 2018, 05:21 PM) On... Oct 22 2018, 12:01 AM

nogal BepiColombo continues to fare well. The magnetomet... Oct 26 2018, 12:18 PM

nogal The testing of BepiColombo's four electric pro... Dec 5 2018, 03:13 PM

nogal ESA announced that BepiColombo has initiated its f... Dec 18 2018, 08:09 PM

monty python Great news. And a cool selfie. Dec 19 2018, 06:29 AM

nogal BepiColombo continues to work well. Here is an exc... Apr 5 2019, 02:12 PM

MahFL QUOTE (nogal @ Apr 5 2019, 02:12 PM) Bepi... Apr 6 2019, 01:46 AM

bobik First Light of PHEBUS on BepiColombo MPO. May 28 2019, 04:56 AM

nogal On June 17 BepiColombo used its on-board monitorin... Jun 18 2019, 02:59 PM

nogal An interesting ESA article with some details about... Nov 8 2019, 06:23 PM

bobik There is apparently a public dashboard of the Bepi... Mar 10 2020, 02:15 PM

nogal Despite the restrictions due to the current corona... Mar 30 2020, 07:15 PM

Explorer1 Some very impressive images came down showing Eart... Apr 9 2020, 07:55 PM

MahFL QUOTE (Explorer1 @ Apr 9 2020, 07:55 PM) ... Apr 10 2020, 08:20 AM

nogal Esa has released a short image sequence taken by t... Apr 10 2020, 06:26 PM

antipode Wow! Love this sort of 'through the riggin... Apr 11 2020, 01:08 AM

Lucas Here is a video from the Kryoneri Observatory in G... Apr 11 2020, 06:45 PM

nogal BepiColopmbo: The Earth Flyby collection, by ESA:... Apr 17 2020, 11:13 PM

palebutdot Here's another view of Earth and Moon from Bep... Apr 18 2020, 08:05 AM

Steve G BepiColombo flew by Venus today and snapped this b... Oct 15 2020, 03:41 PM

Marcin600 And flyby video , (and here ) Can anyone help m... Oct 15 2020, 07:11 PM

JRehling My hypothesis would be that a small part of the sp... Oct 15 2020, 11:56 PM

rhr Or maybe a specular reflection of venus from a fla... Oct 16 2020, 03:25 PM

atomoid Similar to the Earth flyby sequence you can see a ... Oct 19 2020, 08:49 PM

Marcin600 Thanks for the suggestions and insights! Here... Oct 20 2020, 06:38 PM

Explorer1 A nice summary of Venus flyby 2's early result... Aug 13 2021, 04:17 PM

Hungry4info Just dropping by to give this thread a little nudg... Sep 28 2021, 10:55 AM

TrappistPlanets QUOTE (Hungry4info @ Sep 28 2021, 11:55 A... Sep 29 2021, 10:59 PM

JRehling We have over four years to get ready for BC's ... Sep 30 2021, 03:53 PM

Hungry4info Hello Mercury Oct 2 2021, 10:02 AM

TrappistPlanets QUOTE (Hungry4info @ Oct 2 2021, 10:02 AM... Oct 2 2021, 01:36 PM

JRehling The answer to that is in post #39. Oct 2 2021, 04:48 PM

titanicrivers The complete article from today referenced earlier... Oct 2 2021, 05:22 PM

brellis Astounding how precisely successful this maneuver ... Oct 2 2021, 07:03 PM

Phil Stooke JRehling: "At global resolution, Messenger ha... Oct 2 2021, 07:19 PM

TrappistPlanets QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Oct 2 2021, 07:19 PM... Oct 3 2021, 06:14 PM

JRehling QUOTE (TrappistPlanets @ Oct 3 2021, 11:1... Oct 3 2021, 10:55 PM

bobik JAXA's flyby webcast and ESA Operations tweets... Oct 3 2021, 06:28 AM

Explorer1 Video including some more distant departure views ... Oct 4 2021, 03:54 PM

bobik It seems BepiColombo experienced a Safe Mode event... Jan 12 2022, 04:40 PM

Explorer1 Nothing new on their social media, either. Must ha... Jan 12 2022, 09:44 PM

bobik QUOTE (Explorer1 @ Jan 12 2022, 10:44 PM)... Jan 13 2022, 02:07 PM

bobik BepiColombo is going to enter superior solar conju... Jan 23 2022, 07:11 AM

bobik A strange dark streak with greyish "halo... Feb 2 2022, 02:10 PM

nogal QUOTE (bobik @ Feb 2 2022, 02:10 PM) A st... Feb 2 2022, 07:50 PM

bobik QUOTE (nogal @ Feb 2 2022, 08:50 PM) ... ... Feb 2 2022, 08:14 PM

StargazeInWonder Perhaps a coincidence, but the streak has a simila... Feb 2 2022, 11:32 PM

nogal Thanks for the tip. I found it best to set the ... Feb 3 2022, 12:43 AM

bobik QUOTE (nogal @ Feb 3 2022, 01:43 AM) I fo... Feb 3 2022, 06:59 AM

bobik On 2022-03-02 an extended photo session was undert... Mar 12 2022, 07:11 AM

bobik Interesting presentation (among many others) about... Jun 8 2022, 03:43 PM

bobik Quite extraordinary, even though only a very brief... Jun 16 2022, 01:34 PM

nogal BepiColombo's second (of six) Mercury flybys t... Jun 20 2022, 10:40 AM

Explorer1 Here we go, a few days early! https://www.esa.... Jun 23 2022, 03:42 PM

JTN A few more pictures in the report Second helpings ... Jun 25 2022, 08:39 AM

bobik According to information in ESA's fantastic, b... Jul 24 2022, 07:28 AM

bobik New sequence of images of the front side of the HG... Sep 15 2022, 07:41 AM

bobik Today ends Payload Checkout #8. Next follows Platf... Nov 11 2022, 07:33 AM

bobik ESTRACKnow data indicates some unspecified problem... Dec 13 2022, 07:32 AM

bobik According to public available information at the f... May 27 2023, 04:29 PM

nogal BepiColombo is making it's next flyby of Mercu... Jun 16 2023, 11:55 AM

nogal Here is the first image (from yesterday, June 19) ... Jun 20 2023, 11:16 AM

Quetzalcoatl Bonsoir, Link to the other images in this third f... Jun 20 2023, 04:40 PM

bobik The 5th Solar Conjunction Experiment (SCE#5) begin... Jun 22 2023, 06:11 AM

nogal And here is a flyby movie which also includes a re... Jun 22 2023, 05:01 PM

bobik Pre-3rd-flyby presentation about the Shape-from-Sh... Jun 23 2023, 07:47 AM

bobik The SpaceOps-2023 paper on BepiColombo flight oper... Nov 25 2023, 07:35 AM

bobik During the end of January the front side of the HG... Feb 27 2024, 03:39 PM

bobik According to the public dashboard of the BepiColom... Apr 17 2024, 09:03 AM

Hungry4info Glitch on BepiColombo: work ongoing to restore spa... May 15 2024, 02:50 PM

bobik A brief update on the BepiColombo problems. Solar ... May 29 2024, 06:52 AM

bobik Is this part of a power conservation effort? The S... Jun 2 2024, 01:40 PM

bobik Less than two weeks before the next scheduled Merc... Aug 23 2024, 06:52 AM

ynyralmaen A preview of this week's Mercury swingby 4 and... Sep 2 2024, 08:56 AM

Explorer1 An 11 month delay is so much better than missing e... Sep 2 2024, 01:56 PM

Floyd QUOTE (Explorer1 @ Sep 2 2024, 09:56 AM) ... Sep 2 2024, 08:27 PM

nogal Here is a link to a news source on European spacef... Sep 2 2024, 10:16 PM

ynyralmaen First images from Bepi's 4th Mercury flyby hav... Sep 5 2024, 02:38 PM

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