07.0ºe Lancering : Ariane 5 • BepiColombo

[Crazy Sat]

 7.0°E 11012, V, 4936 8PSK FEC Auto CSG Kourou (Arianespace) 4:2:0

 

Launch time: 0145 GMT on 20th (9:45 p.m. EDT on 19th)
Launch site: ELA-3, Kourou, French Guiana

Arianespace will use an Ariane 5 ECA rocket to launch the BepiColombo mission for the European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. BepiColombo will begin a seven-year journey to Mercury, where two spacecraft built in Europe and Japan will survey the solar system’s innermost planet’s geology, evolution and magnetic field. BepiColombo will be the third space mission to visit Mercury, and the first led by Europe. Delayed from Oct. 5 and Oct. 18.