Newslink: The Most Powerful Ion Drive in Space Is Ready for Its Visit to Mercury

zathras (66)in #newslink • 6 years ago

The BepiColombo mission to Mercury that left Earth on Oct. 19 has a long journey ahead of it, but the spacecraft just ticked off an important milestone.

https://www.space.com/42646-bepicolombo-fires-ion-thrusters-toward-mercury.html

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6 years ago in #newslink by zathras (66)

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