BepiColombo's Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter in the Large Space Simulator (IMAGE)

European Space Agency

BepiColombo's Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter in the Large Space Simulator

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This is BepiColombo's Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO) in the Large Space Simulator at ESTEC, the Netherlands. The octagonal spacecraft is Japan's contribution to BepiColombo and will explore Mercury's magnetic field.

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ESA/JAXA

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