BepiColombo (MPO+MMO) - Ariane 5 ECA (VA245) - Kourou ELA-3 - 20.10.2018 - 04:45:35 ДМВ

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BepiColombo‏Подлинная учетная запись @BepiColombo 1 ч. назад

While insulation is being finalised on @ESA_Bepi & @ESA_MTM, solar array deployment tests have begun for MTM before being attached to the craft; MTM is also being readied for Xenon fuelling, which will be used for the solar electric propulsion to #Mercury

Bepi‏ @ESA_Bepi 1 ч. назад

First part of my multi-layered insulation is done, more sewing of the blankets happening this week. Looks very neat and tidy on this side already! I also got a software update! http://ow.ly/C9qw30kHHvj 

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https://spaceflightnow.com/2018/07/03/arianespace-aims-for-busy-second-half-of-2018/

Arianespace aims for busy second half of 2018
July 3, 2018 | Stephen Clark


The BepiColombo mission's Mercury Planetary Orbiter and Mercury Transfer Module undergo electrical testing at the Guiana Space Center. Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – S. Martin

Europe's first mission to Mercury, a quartet of Galileo navigation spacecraft, a global winds observatory, and a new European weather satellite have arrived at an equatorial launch base in French Guiana in preparation for launches in the coming months.

The set of European missions are set to ride into space aboard four rockets, amid several more commercial flights carrying communications satellites to orbit, in what is shaping up to be a busy second half of the year for Arianespace, the French company which oversees Ariane 5, Soyuz and Vega launch operations at the European-run spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.

The rapid-fire launch campaigns are already underway at the space center on the northeastern coast of South America, where technicians are preparing rocket and satellite hardware for liftoff.

Launch of Europe's first mission to Mercury targeted for Oct. 18

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The BepiColombo mission to Mercury is on track for liftoff Oct. 18 (U.S. and French Guiana time), after a two-week slip caused by delays in finishing testing of the spacecraft in Europe earlier this year.

The four-piece Mercury mission, a partnership between ESA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, will ride an Ariane 5 rocket into interplanetary space. The mission will return to Earth a gravitational assist flyby in April 2020, then use two encounters with Venus and five fleeting flybys of Mercury to spiral toward the inner solar system, eventually entering orbit around the innermost planet in December 2025.

The mission has an interplanetary launch window from Oct. 5 through Nov. 29, and liftoff is currently scheduled for approximately 0145 GMT on Oct. 19 (9:45 p.m. EDT; 10:45 p.m. French Guiana time on Oct. 18 ), ESA officials said.

Comprised of a European-built planetary orbiter, transfer module and sunshield, plus a Japanese-made orbiter to probe Mercury's magnetosphere, BepiColombo will be the second mission to orbit Mercury after NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft, and the first led by Europe to accomplish the feat.

Europe has previously developed science probes to visit the moon, Mars, Venus, comets and asteroids, and Saturn's moon Titan.

BepiColombo's two scientific orbiters host instruments to map the planet's landscapes and topography, peer into darkened craters that may contain water ice and a mysterious frozen organic sludge, and probe the scorched world's interior structure by measuring its magnetic field.


Photos of BepiColombo's components undergoing launch preparations in Kourou, French Guiana. Clockwise, from upper left: Japan's Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter, the Mercury Transfer Module, BepiColombo's sunshield, and the European Mercury Planetary Orbiter. Credit: ESA–B.Guillaume; JAXA/ESA–M. Basile

The European-built Mercury Planetary Orbiter carries 11 instruments, a suite comprising a high-resolution mapping camera, a laser altimeter, an accelerometer, and a set of spectrometers on a downward-facing science deck that will remain pointed toward the planet throughout each orbit.

The Japanese-made Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter's five science sensors will study the plasma environment around Mercury, attempt to image the planet's sodium-rich tenuous atmosphere, and measure Mercury's magnetic field.

The two orbiters will launch with a propulsion module fitted with four plasma thrusters to guide them on the 7.2-year, 5.5-billion-mile (8.9-billion-kilometer) journey to Mercury. The transfer section and sunshield, which carry no scientific instrumentation, will be jettisoned when BepiColombo arrives at Mercury for the final time in 2025.

The mission is named for Giuseppe 'Bepi' Colombo, the Italian mathematician and engineer who helped design Mariner 10's Mercury flyby trajectory.

Components of the BepiColombo mission, along with ground support hardware, arrived in French Guiana from ESA's technical center in the Netherlands earlier this year on four Antonov cargo planes. Additional equipment traveled to the launch site by sea.

Since BepiColombo's arrival at the launch site, ground crews have installed hand-sewn thermal insulation blankets on the Mercury Planetary Orbiter and Mercury Transfer Module. The spacecraft must withstand extreme temperature swings, and engineers designed new multi-layer insulation materials for BepiColombo.

BepiColombo has also completed electrical checkouts to ensure the spacecraft were not damaged during the trip from Europe. In the coming weeks, workers will conduct a solar array deployment test and fill the BepiColombo propulsion section with xenon fuel.

Build-up of the Ariane 5 rocket set to launch BepiColombo, designated VA245, should begin later this summer, and technicians will finish loading propellants into the spacecraft before assembling BepiColombo into its launch configuration.
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Bepi‏ @ESA_Bepi 55 мин. назад

Busy days! Here's me hanging out with @JAXA_MMO last week at the #Spaceport, as the sewing of my thermal blankets goes on. The insulation will help protect me from the extreme thermal conditions at Mercury
http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2018/07/Sewing_MPO_insulation_blankets ...

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Bepi‏ @ESA_Bepi 43 мин. назад

Meanwhile, @ESA_MTM's tanks were loaded with 581 kg of #xenon, which will be used for the electric propulsion system that will take us to #Mercury

MTM‏ @ESA_MTM 49 мин. назад

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BepiColombo Simulation

European Space Agency, ESA

Опубликовано: 10 июл. 2018 г.

Preparation is well under way for BepiColombo. Recently the long flight to Mercury was simulated at ESOC, ESA's Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany, where it will be controlled during its journey after its launch from Kourou.

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О, теперь понятно, что снимали. Я эту тренировку и проводил на позапрошлой неделе.

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Bepi‏ @ESA_Bepi 3 ч. назад

Hello from the #Spaceport! Launch preparation activities are proceeding: you can see me on the right, with thermal blankets now also on my high-gain antenna, and @ESA_MTM in the background. Integration on @JAXA_MMO (left of the picture) also ongoing: http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2018/07/BepiColombo_at_the_Spaceport ...

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Bepi‏ @ESA_Bepi 3 ч. назад

More photos, including sewing of insulation blankets for me & @ESA_MTM http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/content/search?SearchText=BepiColombo&img=1&SearchButton=Go ...

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Bepi‏ @ESA_Bepi 3 ч. назад

Meanwhile, engineers are also working on thermal insulation of @JAXA_MMO, seen here (left pic) before the integration of the panels supporting the solar cells (panels: right pic)

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MTM‏ @ESA_MTM 3 ч. назад




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BepiColombo‏Подлинная учетная запись @BepiColombo 2 ч. назад

The deployment test of @ESA_MTM's solar array wing on 6 July was pretty cool!


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みお (MIO)‏ @JAXA_MMO 12 ч. назад

みんな！#水星 への打ち上げに向けて最後のお着替えが終わったよ！ 仲間のみんなと記念写真！

Hey! I finished my dressing up and now ready for space and #Mercury! Here photo with my friends!

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国際水星探査計画「ベピコロンボ」

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Опубликовано: 19 июл. 2018 г.

Международный проект изучения Меркурия «BepiColombo»

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BepiColombo‏Подлинная учетная запись @BepiColombo 8 мин. назад

Latest from the #Spaceport @ESA_MTM solar array deployment tests completed

ESA Science‏Подлинная учетная запись @esascience 19 мин. назад

#Space #Science #ImageOfTheWeek: Final inspections for the #BepiColombo @ESA_MTM 's solar arrays before being stowed for launch http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2018/07/Mercury_Transfer_Module_solar_wing_inspection ...

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BepiColombo launch to Mercury

European Space Agency, ESA

Опубликовано: 25 июн. 2018 г.

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http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/BepiColombo/BepiColombo_to_target_mid-October_launch

BepiColombo launch to Mercury

BEPICOLOMBO TO TARGET MID-OCTOBER LAUNCH

26 July 2018
Europe's first mission to Mercury will target the early morning of 19 October for launch, Arianespace and ESA announced today.

The joint ESA-JAXA BepiColombo mission will launch on an Ariane 5 from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, setting a trio of spacecraft on course for Mercury. The spacecraft will travel together: a transfer module will carry the two science orbiters – the ESA Mercury Planetary Orbiter and the JAXA Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter – using a combination of solar power and electric propulsion, and nine gravity-assist flybys of Earth, Venus and Mercury.

Lift-off is anticipated for around 01:45 GMT (03:45 CEST), equivalent to 18 October 22:45 in local time (GFT).

The date chosen represents the first option to launch, taking into account some additional, unplanned testing performed in Kourou. The launch window remains open until 29 November.

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Mercury Planetary Orbiter at the Spaceport

"We have had a great start to our launch campaign in Kourou, and are on track for launch in less than ninety days," says ESA's BepiColombo project manager Ulrich Reininghaus.

"We have an incredibly packed schedule, but it is great to see our spacecraft building up together for the final time."

Since arriving at the Spaceport in May, many essential preparations have been completed. For example, the spacecraft have been fitted with their protective high-temperature blankets, xenon and nitrogen tanks have been checked, loaded and pressurised, and the deployment tests and final installations of the solar arrays are underway.

Simulations for key operations have also started at ESA's operations centre in Darmstadt, Germany. Personnel are also practicing non-routine events to be prepared for all eventualities on the journey to Mercury.


BepiColombo Simulation

The composite spacecraft 'stack' will make the first flyby of Mercury just three years after launch. A number of scientific instruments will be active during the planetary flybys, with the transfer module's 'webcams' offering the potential to capture simple images before the main science camera is operational in Mercury orbit.

Once separated into their final orbits, the two scientific craft will make complementary measurements of the innermost planet and its environment, from its deep interior to its interaction with the solar wind, to provide the best understanding of Mercury to date. The results will provide insight into how the innermost planet of a solar system forms and evolves close to its parent star.

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http://tass.ru/kosmos/5407349

Запуск к Меркурию исследовательской миссии BepiColombo запланирован на 19 октября

Космос | 26 июля, 23:42 UTC+3

ПАРИЖ, 26 июля. /ТАСС/. Космические аппараты исследовательской миссии BepiColombo, которая готовится Европейским космическим агентством (ЕSA) совместно с Японским агентством аэрокосмических исследований (JAXA), будут запущены 19 октября с космодрома во Французской Гвиане. Об этом сообщили в четверг в пресс-службе ЕSА.

"Совместная миссия ESA и JAXA BepiColombo будет запущена на борту ракеты Ariane 5 из европейского космопорта в Куру, отправив тройку космических аппаратов в путешествие к Меркурию. Аппараты будут путешествовать вместе - трансферный модуль будет нести два научных орбитальных аппарата, используя сочетание солнечной и электрической энергии, а также девять гравитационных маневров возле Земли, Венеры и Меркурия", - говорится в сообщении агентства.

Старт запланирован на 22:45 18 октября по местному времени Французской Гвианы (04:45 19 октября мск). "Выбранная дата является первой возможностью для запуска с учетом того, что возможны некоторые дополнительные незапланированные проверки в Куру. Стартовое окно останется открытым до 29 ноября", - добавили в ЕSА.

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Программа BepiColombo выполняется с 2008 года совместными усилиями ESA и JAXA. В ходе миссии к Меркурию должны быть доставлены два орбитальных аппарата, задачей которых станет всестороннее изучение планеты и окружающего пространство, включая исследование невидимой с Земли стороны Меркурия. Согласно плану, зонды должны достичь цели к декабрю 2025 года.

Несколько научных приборов, установленных на борту двух аппаратов BepiColombo, разработаны при участии российских специалистов. В частности, ученые из Института космических исследований РАН участвовали в создании двух спектрометров, предназначенных для изучения элементного состава поверхности Меркурия и для исследования экзосферы планеты.

В ЕSА рассчитывают, что аппараты миссии BepiColombo могут проработать на орбите Меркурия год. За это время должны быть собраны данные о химическом составе меркурианской поверхности, проведено исследование магнитного поля планеты и осуществлен поиск льда на ее полюсах.

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BepiColombo‏Подлинная учетная запись @BepiColombo 22 ч. назад

We've got our launch date, but there's still a lot of preparation to do between now and 19 Oct for our #bepicolombo spacecraft @ESA_Bepi, @JAXA_MMO and @ESA_MTM. Latest video report from the #Spaceport:
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BepiColombo ongoing health checks
The BepiColombo spacecraft, Europe's first mission to Mercury, arrived at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana in May. The spacecraft have been undergoing a series of ongoing health checks.

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MTM‏ @ESA_MTM 9 ч. назад





Bepi‏ @ESA_Bepi 9 ч. назад

In "electrical stack configuration" with @JAXA_MMO and @ESA_MTM. We moved closer together so we could connect electrically with extension cables for more testing : http://ow.ly/JCrC30lc3zw 

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Чем ближе планета к Солнцы, тем более плотные породы на ней существуют. Какие самые плотные породы есть на планете?
Свинец, уран, платина?
Если обнаружат вулканы, то могут быть подземные озера из натрия, лития.
Интереснo распределение углерода, графита на экваторе.
Какие уникальные минералы на нем присутствуют?
Есть ли соединения гелия с водородом НеН, криптона в виде льда и другие экзотические
вещества, которых нет на Земле.
Может быть найдут новые жаростойкие сплавы, минералы или изотопы ( вольфрама, танталла, рения) которые можно использовать в конструкции ракетных двигателей, т.к. при солнечних вспышках температyра поверхности Меркурия могла достигать 600С и выше.