Source: ESA
BepiColombo's Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter in the Large Space Simulator.
Image credit: ESA/JAXA
Key components of the ESA-led Mercury mapper BepiColombo have been tested in a specially upgraded European space simulator. ESA's Large Space Simulator is now the most powerful in the world and the only facility capable of reproducing Mercury's hellish environment for a full-scale spacecraft.(read more)
