This image may not be used to state or imply ESA endorsement of any company or product BepiColombo spacecraft at Mercury, illustration. BepiColombo is

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This image may not be used to state or imply ESA endorsement of any company or product BepiColombo spacecraft at Mercury, illustration. BepiColombo is a joint mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to explore Mercury. Scheduled for launch in 2018, it will arrive at Mercury in 2025. it has three components: ESA's Mercury Transfer Module (MTM), ESA's Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO, foreground) and JAXA's Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO, background). The image of Mercury was obtained by NASA's Messenger spacecraft.

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