{"id":126932,"date":"2021-08-30T01:23:50","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T08:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/bepicolombo-solar-orbiter-collect-data-on-venus-during-historic-double-flyby"},"modified":"2021-08-30T01:23:50","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T08:23:50","slug":"bepicolombo-solar-orbiter-collect-data-on-venus-during-historic-double-flyby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/bepicolombo-solar-orbiter-collect-data-on-venus-during-historic-double-flyby","title":{"rendered":"BepiColombo, Solar Orbiter collect data on Venus during historic double flyby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DpjQSI9bEjs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On August 9 2021, the joint <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasaspaceflight.com\/?s=Solar+orbiter\">ESA\/NASA Solar Orbiter<\/a> spacecraft performed a flyby of Venus, coming within 7,995 km of the Venusian surface. Just 33 hours later, on August 10 the joint <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasaspaceflight.com\/?s=BepiColombo\">ESA\/JAXA BepiColombo spacecraft<\/a> flew by the planet, coming within 552 km of the surface.<\/p>\n<p>The historic double flyby was a result of the two spacecraft attempting to reduce their orbital energy while en route to their respective destinations. BepiColombo is traveling to <a href=\"https:\/\/solarsystem.nasa.gov\/planets\/mercury\/overview\/\">Mercury<\/a>, where it will study the planet in-depth, while Solar Orbiter is finishing its last flybys before entering the correct orbital inclination to best observe the Sun.<\/p>\n<p>The double flybys required great accuracy and precise deep-space network coordination to ensure the two trajectories did not cross. During the flyby, both BepiColombo and Solar Orbiter collected data <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasaspaceflight.com\/?s=Venus\">on Earth\u2019s sister planet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On August 9 2021, the joint ESA\/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft performed a flyby of Venus, coming within 7,995 km of the Venusian surface. Just 33 hours later, on August 10 the joint ESA\/JAXA BepiColombo spacecraft flew by the planet, coming within 552 km of the surface. The historic double flyby was a result of the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}