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post Oct 17 2018, 03:23 PM
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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!!!


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post Oct 21 2018, 07:52 PM
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Antenna deployment images.

Think we're likely to see some extraordinarily cool selfies at Mercury (and perhaps during the Earth and Venus flybys as well.) smile.gif


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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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