Wednesday, 19 January 2011

ESA's Mercury mapper feels the heat

Key components of the ESA-led Mercury mapper BepiColombo have been tested in a specially upgraded European space simulator. ESA's Large Space Simulator is now the most powerful in the world and the only facility capable of reproducing Mercury's hellish environment for a full-scale spacecraft.

More at:

http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEMNBC6SXIG_index_0.html

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