Blastoff! BepiColumbo Spacecraft Heads to Mercury

The European Space Agency and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s BepiColombo mission to Mercury launched atop an Ariane 5 rocket on Oct 20, 2018 (Oct 19 EDT) from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana. -- Learn more about the mission: https://www.space.com/42176-mercury-mission-bepicolombo-launch-science.html

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