Jan 9, 2025 | Highlight, Space mission
On 8 January 2025, the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission flew past Mercury for the sixth time, successfully completing the final ‘gravity assist manoeuvre’ needed to steer it into orbit around the planet in late 2026. The spacecraft flew just a few hundred kilometres above...
Sep 16, 2024 | Highlight, Space mission
Video of the closest flyby of a planet ever, as the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo spacecraft sped past Mercury during its latest encounter on 4 September 2024. The images are taken by MCSE’s monitoring cameras on board the spacecraft. Featured on ESA website...
Sep 6, 2024 | Highlight, Space mission
Image taken by MCSE’s monitoring camera on board BepiColombo mission during Mercury’s fourth flyby on 4 September 2024. This image is taken from a distance of 3459 kmkm from the planet’s surface. Source and credits: ESA Featured on ESA website...
Sep 5, 2024 | Highlight, Space mission
Image taken by MCSE’s monitoring camera on board BepiColombo mission during Mercury’s fourth flyby on 4 September 2024. This image is taken from a distance of 177 km from the planet’s surface. This makes it the closest image of Mercury that BepiColombo has...
Sep 5, 2024 | Highlight, Space mission
Image taken by MCSE’s monitoring camera on board BepiColombo mission during Mercury’s fourth flyby on 4 September 2024. This image is taken from a distance of 355 km from the planet’s surface. The surface of Mercury hosts many fascinating geological...
Aug 23, 2024 | Highlight, Space mission
Images of the Earth taken by MCSE’s monitoring camera on board ESA’s JUICE mission to Jupiter, during the first-ever lunar-Earth flyby. © ESA/Juice/JMC CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO Featured on ESA website...
Aug 20, 2024 | Highlight, Space mission
Image taken by MCSE’s monitoring camera on board ESA’s JUICE mission to Jupiter, during the first step of humankind’s first-ever lunar-Earth flyby. Earth shows itself as a dark circle outlined by a light crescent at the top centre of the image, peeking out from...
Aug 20, 2024 | Highlight, Space mission
Image taken by MCSE’s monitoring camera on board ESA’s JUICE mission to Jupiter, during the first step of humankind’s first-ever lunar-Earth flyby. © ESA/Juice/JMC CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO Featured on ESA website...
May 15, 2024 | Highlight, Space mission
Tthe Aft cameras can be seen on VIPER robotic Moon rover in a clean room at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, while the team is making preparations for environmental testing of the rover. (source: NASA; image credit: NASA/Helen Arase Vargas). Featured on NASA...
