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A flawless, radiant, #Mercuryflyby

After a flawless flyby of Mercury, @BepiColombo is starting to feel the heat. Image
At 01:34:41 CEST this morning, BepiColombo passed just 199 kilometres from the hot, rocky, innermost planet – the outcome of months of work to get the spacecraft into a precise trajectory for the first rendezvous with its target planet.

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β€œIt was flawless. Everything was perfect from the spacecraft point of view, and as expected, BepiColombo has really started to feel the heat,” explains Elsa Montagnon, Spacecraft #Operations Manager for the mission.
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