BepiColombo’s second Venus flyby

BepiColombo’s second Venus flyby

Venus taken by MCSE’s monitoring camera during the second flyby of Venus of the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission. The image was taken on 10 August 2021 at 1573 km from the planet. Featured on ESA website...
VIPER camera system

VIPER camera system

We are delighted and proud to announce that Micro Cameras & Space Exploration (MCSE) has been selected to supply the camera system for NASA’s latest lunar rover, the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER). The system from MCSE will provide the...
Article in “L’Agefi”

Article in “L’Agefi”

Press article in the Swiss journal L’Agefi featuring the participation of Micro-Cameras & Space Exploration to ClearSpace-1 debris-removal mission. Article in...
BepiColombo points to Venus

BepiColombo points to Venus

Sequence of images taken by one of the monitoring cameras on board the European-Japanese BepiColombo mission to Mercury, as the spacecraft slewed to point towards Venus ahead of its 15 October flyby. Featured on ESA website...
ESA’s oldest Earth-observer images Delhi airport

ESA’s oldest Earth-observer images Delhi airport

Plentiful parked airliners at Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, usually the busiest airport in India until the COVID-19 pandemic, as seen by ESA’s oldest operational Earth observation mission, Proba-1. The image was taken by the High Resolution Camera....
BepiColombo keeping an eye on Earth

BepiColombo keeping an eye on Earth

A sequence of daily images of Earth taken by one of the MCAMs onboard BepiColombo spacecraft as it moved away from our planet after its gravity-assist flyby on 10 April 2020, on its path towards the inner Solar System and its final destination, Mercury. The first...