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BepiColombo Earth flyby | MCAM#2 🌎🪐

#bepicolombo #earth #esa

▶️ 1 new picture from @stim3on https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BepiColombo_Earth_flyby_-_MCAM-2_%2855516569277%29.jpg

Want some wild #BepiColombo action? Then watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJqWGdWERqk at double speed and see all the M-CAM images ever taken in a few minutes!

🛰️⚪ #BepiColombo est en train d'arriver à sa destination finale : Mercure.
Pour y parvenir après 8 ans de voyage, la sonde a effectué plusieurs survols de planètes : la Terre, Vénus et Mercure.
Les selfies effectués pendant ces survols : https://youtu.be/WJqWGdWERqk

Et les explications à retrouver dans mes articles : https://reves-d-espace.com/tag/bepicolombo/

Finally there, and it wasn't easy: "It turns out traveling to fleet-footed Mercury and then entering orbit requires more energy, or delta-v, than sending a probe to fly by Pluto."

"The BepiColombo mission cleared a major milestone this week in the final stretch of an eight-year interplanetary voyage to Mercury, the hard-to-reach, scorching hot iron world at the Solar System’s innermost frontier."

https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/09/after-8-years-europes-bepicolombo-mission-is-on-final-approach-to-mercury/

#Mercury #BepiColombo #Probes #Space #Planets

Me publican en @theconversationes dos artículos sobre #Mercurio, al hilo de la misión BepiColombo.
El primero: Por qué es tan difícil llegar a Mercurio: el desafío de la misión #BepiColombo
https://theconversation.com/por-que-es-tan-dificil-llegar-a-mercurio-el-desafio-de-la-mision-bepicolombo-291296
Y el segundo: Mercurio, el enigma cósmico que resolvió Albert Einstein
https://theconversation.com/mercurio-el-enigma-cosmico-que-resolvio-albert-einstein-291383

2026-09-07 13:00:00 UTC (Delta: 2026-08-31)

WHERE IS BEPI?
- Barycentric speed: 43.74 km/s (-4.10 km/s)
- Mercury Orbit Insertion in: 74 days

⚪ Relative to Mercury
- Distance (km): 2,397,851.15 km (-1,299,877.85 km)
- Distance (AU): 0.02 (-0.01)
- Light travel time: 0 min 8.00 s (-4.34 s)

🌎 Relative to Earth
- Distance (km): 205,968,171.33 km (-1,473,340.09 km)
- Distance (AU): 1.38 (-0.01)
- Light travel time: 11 min 27.04 s (-4.91 s)

#BepiColombo #Mercury

Hackaday Links: September 6, 2026

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/09/06/hackaday-links-september-6-2026/

After 8 years, Europe’s BepiColombo mission is on final approach to Mercury

https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/09/after-8-years-europes-bepicolombo-mission-is-on-final-approach-to-mercury/

#science #astronomy #mercury #bepicolombo

Nach acht Jahren Flugzeit erreicht #BepiColombo die finale Phase: Die Raumsonde hat ihr Antriebsmodul abgetrennt und nimmt Kurs auf die #Merkur-Umlaufbahn. https://winfuture.de/news,161095.html?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=ManualStatus&utm_campaign=SocialMedia

A pair of #spacecraft draw closer to #Mercury after nearly decade-long voyage
If all goes well, the conjoined spacecraft known as #BepiColombo will enter orbit around Mercury in November and split from each other in December to map and study the entire planet from different altitudes. As of Thursday, the spacecraft still had 2 million miles (3.3 million km) to go before reaching its destination. BepiColombo already has traveled more than 6 billion miles (10 billion km)!
https://phys.org/news/2026-09-pair-spacecraft-closer-mercury-decade.html

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🚀🪐 The joint European and Japanese #BepiColombo mission is nearing #Mercury after traveling more than 9.6 billion km (~6 billion mi) over almost a decade.

Using nine planetary flybys to adjust its path, the #spacecraft is expected to enter orbit in November 2026 and begin scientific operations in spring #2027, studying Mercury’s magnetic field, #geology, extreme temperatures, and icy #polar regions.

👉 https://phys.org/news/2026-09-pair-spacecraft-closer-mercury-decade.html

#space #astronomy #science #engineering #physics #technology #tech #nasa #esa #jaxa #planets

🛰️⚪ Ce 3 septembre, la sonde #BepiColombo de l'ESA et de la JAXA a effectué sa première étape d'arrivée sur #Mercure : la séparation de son module de transfert MTM.

Explications : https://reves-d-espace.com/bepicolombo-arrive-sur-mercure-et-se-separe-de-son-module-de-croisiere/

Après un voyage spatial de huit ans, la mission BepiColombo approche de Mercure et doit larguer ses deux sondes

#OndesPubliques #Astrophysique #BepiColombo
Après un voyage spatial de huit ans, la mission BepiColombo approche de Mercure et doit larguer ses deux sondes

#ESA:
"
Latest updates: BepiColombo's arrival at Mercury
"
".. 14:52 BST / 15:52 CEST
Acquisition of signal via two Estrack deep space antennas, in Cebreros (Spain) and Malargüe (Argentina), have confirmed the successful separation of BepiColombo's Mercury Transfer Module (MTM) from the spacecraft stack .."

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/BepiColombo/Latest_updates_BepiColombo_s_arrival_at_Mercury

3.9.2026

#BepiColombo #JAXA #Mercury #Merkur #MPM #Raumfahrt #Raumsonde #SpaceFlight

Surprise! The Mercury Planetary Orbiter of #BepiColombo phoned home 5 minutes early: the Bochum dish (at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKTeaeXVSS8 their live stream) saw a strong signal growing from 13:48:45 UTC - which, of course, was also seen by ESA where everyone is elated.

"We have a spacecraft" It never gets old \o/ #MPO

#ESA #JAXA #BepiColombo #Mercury

Power positive!

#BepiColombo #ESA #JAXA #MPM #Raumfahrt #Raumsonde #SpaceFlight

AOS confirmed! Telemetry incoming!

#BepiColombo #ESA #JAXA #MPM #Raumfahrt #Raumsonde #SpaceFlight

Segnale acquisito per la missione #BepiColombo di ESA e JAXA! Completata correttamente la separazione dei due orbiter dal modulo di trasferimento che li ha condotti a un passo dall'orbita di Mercurio!

Looks like AOS!

#BepiColombo #ESA #JAXA #MPM #Raumfahrt #Raumsonde #SpaceFlight

Die Abtrennung der beiden (noch verbundenen) #BepiColombo-Merkur-Orbiter vom Transfermodul sollte stattgefunden haben, und tatsächlich hat man in Bochum ein Verstummen des Funksignals im richtigen Moment beobachtet: https://bsky.app/profile/amsat-dl.org/post/3mumh2lupnk27 - in genau einer Stunde sollte es wiederkommen, wenn der ESA-Orbiter als quasi neues Raumschiff wieder hochgefahren ist. Auch im derzeit pausierenden ESA-Stream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC7lQngNG3o wird jetzt solch ein Spectrum-Analysator gezeigt, ohne Signal natürlich.

So far so good: as seen in the clip https://bsky.app/profile/amsat-dl.org/post/3mumh2lupnk27 loss of signal from #BepiColombo was at 12:11 UTC, just at the time of the planned MTM separation plus signal time.

All set up to follow the separation of @[email protected] #BepiColombo from the Mercury Transfer Module. The Bepi team at #mpsgoetting and colleagues are eagerly awaiting the first step of the mission’s arrival at #Mercury.
Join us watching live: www.esa.int/Enabling_Sup...
YT: youtube.com/live/oC7lQng...