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BepiColombo’s first Mercury flyby
The first of six flybys that shed the cruise energy orbit insertion requires. Encounter class: flyby.
Historical — it happened, and the record is settled.
Subjects
- BepiColombo · mission · not located
- Mercury · celestial body · not located
Evidence
Partly verified — Core facts are sourced; some optional detail is deliberately absent.
BepiColombo mission record
Launch, the Mercury flyby campaign, and the operator’s declared orbit-insertion target.
ESA / JAXA · Partly verified
ESA BepiColombo mission pages
Recorded on BepiColombo
- Mariner 10 passes Mercury — the first spacecraft to reach it
- Mariner 10’s third and final Mercury pass
- MESSENGER’s first Mercury pass — the first visit since 1975
- MESSENGER enters orbit around Mercury — the first craft to do so
- MESSENGER strikes Mercury at the end of its mission
- BepiColombo’s first Mercury flyby
- BepiColombo’s sixth and final Mercury flyby
- BepiColombo Mercury orbit insertion — declared target
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- MESSENGER strikes Mercury at the end of its mission · 2015-04-30
- MESSENGER enters orbit around Mercury — the first craft to do so · 2011-03-18
- MESSENGER’s first Mercury pass — the first visit since 1975 · 2008-01-14
- Mariner 10’s third and final Mercury pass · 1975-03-16
- Mariner 10 passes Mercury — the first spacecraft to reach it · 1974-03-29