Mercury Planetary Orbiter – Spaceflight Now

July 23, 2018

Breaking News

[ July 22, 2018 ] SpaceX delivers for Telesat with successful early morning launch Falcon 9
[ July 22, 2018 ] Video: Falcon 9 lifts off with Telstar 19 VANTAGE Falcon 9
[ July 21, 2018 ] Falcon 9 launch timeline with Telstar 19 VANTAGE Falcon 9
[ July 21, 2018 ] Weather-monitoring and tech demo CubeSats deployed in orbit Mission Reports
[ July 21, 2018 ] Live coverage: SpaceX launches heavyweight Canadian telecom satellite Falcon 9

Arianespace aims for busy second half of 2018

July 3, 2018

Europe’s first mission to Mercury, a quartet of Galileo navigation spacecraft, the world’s first 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.

BepiColombo Mercury mission tested for journey into ‘pizza oven’

July 10, 2017

Three spacecraft built in Europe and Japan have completed their final joint tests to ensure they are ready for departure to Mercury on an Ariane 5 rocket late next year on the nearly $1.9 billion BepiColombo mission to survey the solar system’s innermost planet.