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Mercury probe BepiColombo thrusters are acting up, but science marches on
The BepiColombo spacecraft is to make a closer-than-planned flyby of Mercury this week, whizzing past the planet at ...
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Thruster issues delay BepiColombo probe's Mercury arrival until November 2026
The Sept. 4 flyby will be BepiColombo's fourth of Mercury to date. However, plans for the upcoming maneuver have been revised due to the spacecraft's thrusters no longer operating at full power ...
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SPACE: Mercury Astronauts
As soon as the U.S. decided to go ahead with Project Mercury, the first missile-borne man-in-space capsule (TIME, Jan. 26), the Pentagon’s IBM machines began sorting through Air Force and Navy ...