{"id":128410,"date":"2021-10-02T00:23:45","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T07:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/bepicolombo-meets-mercury-for-the-first-time-on-october-1"},"modified":"2021-10-02T00:23:45","modified_gmt":"2021-10-02T07:23:45","slug":"bepicolombo-meets-mercury-for-the-first-time-on-october-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/bepicolombo-meets-mercury-for-the-first-time-on-october-1","title":{"rendered":"BepiColombo Meets Mercury for the First Time on October 1"},"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\/wLY-0KIImr4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>BepiColombo will complete its first of six Mercury flybys on October 1st. Some cameras will be operating so we\u2019ll get some images. Some science, too.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>BepiColombo made a quick visit to Venus in August and is on to its next rendezvous. On October 1st it\u2019ll perform a flyby of Mercury, the spacecraft\u2019s eventual destination. This visit is just a little flirtation\u2014one of six\u2014ahead of its eventual orbital link-up with Mercury in late 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The quick visit will yield some scientific results, though, and they\u2019ll be just a taste of what\u2019s ahead in BepiColumbo\u2019s one-year mission to Mercury.<\/p>\n<p>BepiColombo is on a bit of a tour of the inner regions of the Solar System on its way to Mercury. The complicated route full of flybys of Earth, Venus, and Mercury is the only way to get the spacecraft into orbit at Mercury. BepiColombo launched in October 2018 from Europe\u2019s Spaceport in French Guiana. Then it travelled through space for a year and a half before returning to Earth for a gravity-assist manoeuvre that directed it toward Venus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BepiColombo will complete its first of six Mercury flybys on October 1st. Some cameras will be operating so we\u2019ll get some images. Some science, too. BepiColombo made a quick visit to Venus in August and is on to its next rendezvous. On October 1st it\u2019ll perform a flyby of Mercury, the spacecraft\u2019s eventual destination. This [\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-128410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128410","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=128410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}