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BepiColombo, an ESA mission in cooperation with Japan, will explore Mercury, the planet closest to the Sun. Europe's space scientists have identified the mission as one of the most challenging long-term planetary projects, because Mercury's proximity to the Sun makes it difficult for a spacecraft to reach and survive in the harsh environment. The scientific interest to go to Mercury lies in the valuable clues that such a mission can provide in understanding the planet itself as well as the formation of our Solar System; clues which cannot be obtained with distant observations from Earth. The mission will consist of two separate spacecraft that will orbit the planet. ESA is building one of the main spacecraft, the Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO), and the Japanese space agency ISAS/JAXA will contribute the other, the Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO).

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6th BepiColombo SWT Meeting, Blois Castle, France, 27-29 October 2009

18 June 2009

The 6th BepiColombo Science Working Team Meeting will be held from Tuesday, October 27 to Thursday, October 29 in Blois, France. Information on the meeting can be found on the meeting website at www.bcoswt09.com.

Joint MESSENGER - BepiColombo Meeting : The surface composition of Mercury from UV-Vis-IR

16 April 2009

Joint MESSENGER - BepiColombo Meeting : The surface composition of Mercury from UV-Vis-IR to be held at University of Parma, Italy 3-5 June, 2009 : http://www.mbc09.unipr.it. The main rationale of the workshop is to stimulate the community to develop strategies for effective and timely interpretation of the reflectance and emissivity spectral data in terms of mineral composition and geologic significance.

BepiColombo Project Glossary Online - UPDATED!

16 April 2009

A glossary of terms used in the day-to-day work of the Bepicolombo Science Ground Segment has been compiled and made available online. This glossary will be of use to anyone involved in the BepiColombo project. The glossary can be accessed here.

PDR Data Package and 7th MPO SWG Agenda and Minutes AVAILABLE

02 April 2009

The PDR data package : payload relevant documents, as well as the Agenda and (TBW) mintues of the 7th MPO Science Working group meeting , to be held at ESTEC on April 6-7, are now available on Livelink. See 'New Documents' section below for links.

New Documents

Spacecraft PDR Data Package : Payload Relevant Documents

Agenda and Minutes of the 7th MPO Science Working Group Meeting

Minutes of the 5th SWT Meeting

Manuscripts submitted to the PSS special issue on BepiColombo

Upcoming Meetings 

6th BepiColombo SWT Meeting, Blois Castle, France, 27-29 October 2009

7th BepiColombo SWT Meeting, Schloss Seggau, Graz, Austria, 13-15 September 2010

 
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