Additionally, ESA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) are collaborating on the BepiColombo mission to Mercury. In January 2025, BepiColombo will make its sixth flyby of Mercury ...

NASA is a methodical institution that plans its missions years or even decades in advance, enjoys a famously loyal workforce ...

The European Space Agency (ESA)’s BepiColombo mission has made another flyby of Mercury, capturing fascinating images of this lesser-studied inner planet. On January 8, 2025, the spacecraft made ...

Chris Kraft was sole flight director for the Mercury missions and the lead flight director on several of the Gemini flights. He describes the position this way: "There's only one flight director.

To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...

"We can't wait to see what BepiColombo will reveal during this sixth and final flyby of Mercury. While we're still two years away from the mission's main science phase, we expect this encounter to ...

ForbesRevealed: NASA's 'Night Mission' To Mercury, The Only Inner Planet We've Yet To Land OnBy Jamie Carter NASA’s Mariner 10 probe imaged Mercury from 1974-75 while NASA’s MESSENGER mission ...

Closest approach will take the spacecraft just 160 miles above the surface of Mercury. Mission controllers will release images of the event on Jan. 9. Two moon landers on one rocket: Jan. 15 Two ...