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BepiColombo Launch & Cruise Phase
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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 Mar 30 2020, 07:15 PM
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Despite the restrictions due to the current coronavirus crisis, ESA is preparing for the April 10's BepiColombo Earth flyby.
Celestial mechanics is, of course, immune to the virus tongue.gif and we are already within the critical two weeks before the flyby.
Here is an ESA article on this subject: http://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Spa...onavirus_crisis

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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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