August 2016
International cooperation drives Germany’s space ambitions
... it possible to conduct research in the field of planetary physics by measuring the heat flows on Mars. The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission to Mercury is planned for launch in 2017; DLR is contributing the laser altimeter BELA as well as the infrared...
September 2016
Preparing the future: the right technology at the right time
... trail of an ion thruster during a test firing. A quartet of these highly efficient T6 thrusters is being installed on ESA’s BepiColombo spacecraft to Mercury. What does this mean in practice? Rather than improving the cost-effectiveness of any...
November 2016
Rosetta - an eventful cruise phase
... operations manager. At the same time Elsa Montagnon was nominated spacecraft operations manager for the future BepiColombo mission to Mercury. She left the Rosetta team but was still in the division, in the same corridor...
January 2019
Visiting an asteroid to find out how life began
... planets. In addition to Hayabusa2, Elizabeth assists with the global outreach on JAXA’s Martian Moons Exploration (MMX) and BepiColombo (Mercury) missions. She is also a feature writer for the NASA NExSS ‘Many Worlds’ blog and author...
February 2020
Europe’s role in space standardisation
... crew module. We are also working with JAXA, the Japanese Space Agency, and last year launched BepiColombo to Mercury. Whenever worldwide agencies collaborate on a common mission (for example, the International Space Station with its...
October 2021
Technology transfer and the ‘local’ space market
... has been involved with projects such as NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and ESA’s GAIA, ExoMars, BepiColombo and Sentinel missions. Its extensive activities have been significantly boosted by the burgeoning, commercial NewSpace landscape...
