Mercury Shows Off in Spectacular New Spacecraft

he European Space Agency and Japanese space agency is working on a jiont mission

the name of the joint mission is BepiColombo

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the destination of the space craft is the orbit of mercury

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the spacecraft have to pass several flybys to reach there

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This latest adventure was one of BepiColombo's "gravity assist maneuvers,"

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it is navigational move which will help to enter the orbit of mercury

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the spaceship will enter the orbit by 2025

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This was BepiColombo's second Mercury flyby out of six scheduled for that planet.

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