{"id":234059,"date":"2015-09-17T04:53:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T08:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"b027af5494df8cb57f398de91d10a632"},"modified":"2015-09-17T04:53:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T08:53:00","slug":"bepicolombo-modules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=234059","title":{"rendered":"BepiColombo modules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2015\/09\/bepicolombo_modules\/15606468-1-eng-GB\/BepiColombo_modules_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nModules of the BepiColombo spacecraft, which will be on public view during the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/About_Us\/ESTEC\/See_spacecraft_and_meet_astronauts_at_ESA_s_technical_heart\">Sunday 4 October Open Day of ESA\u2019s ESTEC technical centre<\/a> in the Netherlands.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis is the actual flight hardware, set to begin its seven-year cruise phase to Mercury with the rest of the <a href=\"http:\/\/sci.esa.int\/bepicolombo\/\">BepiColombo<\/a>&nbsp;spacecraft in January 2017.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nEurope\u2019s Mercury Planetary Orbiter is seen atop its carrier vehicle, the Mercury Transfer Module, tasked with reaching the vicinity of the innermost planet.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNot seen here is Japan\u2019s Mercury Magnetosphere Orbiter, which will sit on top to complete the BepiColombo \u2018stack\u2019.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nJapan\u2019s craft will enter a highly elliptical orbit to study the planet\u2019s enigmatically strong magnetic field, while ESA\u2019s will go into an approximately 400 x 1500 km mapping orbit around Mercury.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBepiColombo is currently in ESTEC\u2019s test centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Space_Engineering_Technology\/About_ESTEC_Test_Centre\">the largest spacecraft testing facility in Europe<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFor your chance to see it for yourself, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/About_Us\/ESTEC\/See_spacecraft_and_meet_astronauts_at_ESA_s_technical_heart\">register to come to the ESTEC Open Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2015\/09\/bepicolombo_modules\/15606468-1-eng-GB\/BepiColombo_modules_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nModules of the BepiColombo spacecraft, which will be on public view during the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/About_Us\/ESTEC\/See_spacecraft_and_meet_astronauts_at_ESA_s_technical_heart\">Sunday 4 October Open Day of ESA\u2019s ESTEC technical centre<\/a> in the Netherlands.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis is the actual flight hardware, set to begin its seven-year cruise phase to Mercury with the rest of the <a href=\"http:\/\/sci.esa.int\/bepicolombo\/\">BepiColombo<\/a>&nbsp;spacecraft in January 2017.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nEurope\u2019s Mercury Planetary Orbiter is seen atop its carrier vehicle, the Mercury Transfer Module, tasked with reaching the vicinity of the innermost planet.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNot seen here is Japan\u2019s Mercury Magnetosphere Orbiter, which will sit on top to complete the BepiColombo \u2018stack\u2019.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nJapan\u2019s craft will enter a highly elliptical orbit to study the planet\u2019s enigmatically strong magnetic field, while ESA\u2019s will go into an approximately 400 x 1500 km mapping orbit around Mercury.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBepiColombo is currently in ESTEC\u2019s test centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/Our_Activities\/Space_Engineering_Technology\/About_ESTEC_Test_Centre\">the largest spacecraft testing facility in Europe<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFor your chance to see it for yourself, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/About_Us\/ESTEC\/See_spacecraft_and_meet_astronauts_at_ESA_s_technical_heart\">register to come to the ESTEC Open Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=234059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}