{"id":534487,"date":"2018-07-10T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=d0fe065f92cce90f277f769438119a85"},"modified":"2018-07-10T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T09:00:00","slug":"bepicolombo-simulation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=534487","title":{"rendered":"BepiColombo Simulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2018\/07\/bepicolombo_simulation\/17585178-3-eng-GB\/BepiColombo_Simulation_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nBefore the end of the year an Ariane 5 from Kourou will launch a mission to Mercury: BepiColombo.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBepiColombo is Europe\u2019s first mission to Mercury, the smallest and least explored terrestrial planet in our Solar System. &nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt is a joint endeavour between ESA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, JAXA, and consists of two scientific orbiters: ESA\u2019s Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) and JAXA\u2019s Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO).\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe mission will study all aspects of Mercury, from the structure and dynamics of its magnetosphere and how it interacts with the solar wind, to its internal structure with its large iron core, and the origin of the planet\u2019s magnetic field.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe data will enable scientists to understand more about the origin and evolution of a planet located close to its parent star, and a better understanding of the overall evolution of our Solar System.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nPreparation is well under way for BepiColombo. Recently&nbsp;the long flight&nbsp;to Mercury was simulated at ESOC, ESA&#8217;s&nbsp;Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany,&nbsp;where it will be controlled during its&nbsp;journey&nbsp;after its launch from Kourou.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2018\/07\/bepicolombo_simulation\/17585178-3-eng-GB\/BepiColombo_Simulation_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nBefore the end of the year an Ariane 5 from Kourou will launch a mission to Mercury: BepiColombo.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBepiColombo is Europe&rsquo;s first mission to Mercury, the smallest and least explored terrestrial planet in our Solar System. &nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt is a joint endeavour between ESA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, JAXA, and consists of two scientific orbiters: ESA&rsquo;s Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) and JAXA&rsquo;s Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO).\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe mission will study all aspects of Mercury, from the structure and dynamics of its magnetosphere and how it interacts with the solar wind, to its internal structure with its large iron core, and the origin of the planet&rsquo;s magnetic field.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe data will enable scientists to understand more about the origin and evolution of a planet located close to its parent star, and a better understanding of the overall evolution of our Solar System.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nPreparation is well under way for BepiColombo. Recently&nbsp;the long flight&nbsp;to Mercury was simulated at ESOC, ESA&#8217;s&nbsp;Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany,&nbsp;where it will be controlled during its&nbsp;journey&nbsp;after its launch from Kourou.<\/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-534487","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\/534487","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=534487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":534488,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534487\/revisions\/534488"}],"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=534487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=534487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=534487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}