April 2024
Agencia Espacial Española – Spain’s future assurance
... and reception in K-band and Ka-band. It provides routine support to deep-space missions including Mars Express, Gaia, BepiColombo, Solar Orbiter, Juice and Euclid. It will also support future ESA deep-space missions such as Hera...
02 January 2018
2017 - What a year!
... to study the least explored planet in our Solar System – Mercury – is scheduled for lift-off in October. Known as BepiColombo, the joint ESO and JAXA mission is made up of two spacecraft, the Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) and...
23 February 2018
UK to host world’s first commercial deep-space communications station
... capacity by around half,” says ESA’s Pier Bargellini, responsible for network operations. With new spacecraft such as BepiColombo due for launch this year and the agency’s Solar Orbiter, Euclid and Cheops programs currently...
07 February 2020
ESA's Solar Orbiter mission set to launch on 10 February
... more than 100 years of combined experience flying space missions in our division, from the Rosetta landing, to BepiColombo and Venus Express,” says Sylvain Lodiot, Spacecraft Operations Manager for the mission. “We’re now looking forward...
30 September 2020
Another detection of phosphine on Venus possibly found in archival data
...’ atmosphere. Fortunately, scientists might not have that long to wait for further phosphine detections as both ESA’s BepiColombo and NASA’s Parker Solar probe are both on target to flyby Earth’s twin planet in December 2020 and...
