{"id":63776,"date":"2018-10-22T21:27:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T13:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/arianespace-successfully-launches-mercury-bound-bepicolombo-spacecraft\/"},"modified":"2018-10-22T21:27:17","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T13:27:17","slug":"arianespace-successfully-launches-mercury-bound-bepicolombo-spacecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/arianespace-successfully-launches-mercury-bound-bepicolombo-spacecraft\/","title":{"rendered":"Arianespace Successfully Launches Mercury-bound BepiColombo Spacecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Arianespace<\/strong> launched a heavy-lift Ariane 5 rocket carrying BepiColombo \u2013 Europe\u2019s first mission to Mercury, organized in cooperation with Japan \u2013 on its way toward the solar system\u2019s smallest and least-explored terrestrial planet. Ascending from the Spaceport\u2019s ELA-3 launch complex at 10:45:28 p.m. local time in French Guiana,&nbsp; Ariane 5 lofted its passenger during a flight lasting just under 27 minutes, with the multi-segment BepiColombo spacecraft deployed into an Earth escape orbit.<\/p>\n<p>The BepiColombo mission is being carried out jointly by the <strong>European Space Agency<\/strong> (ESA) and the <strong>Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency<\/strong> (JAXA). After arriving in late 2025, the spacecraft \u2013 built under the industrial leadership of <strong>Airbus<\/strong> \u2013 will examine the peculiarities of Mercury\u2019s internal structure and magnetic field generation, as well as how the planet interacts with the sun and solar wind.<\/p>\n<p>Missions to Mercury already have been undertaken in the past, including <strong>NASA<\/strong>\u2019s Mariner 10, which revealed the first images of the planet in 1974-1975; and Messenger, which provided new but also unexpected data and images when it went into orbit around Mercury between 2011 and 2015. However, BepiColombo will be the first-ever European mission to Mercury providing measurements to study and understand the planet\u2019s history, composition, geophysics, exosphere and magnetosphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arianespace launched a heavy-lift Ariane 5 rocket carrying BepiColombo \u2013 Europe\u2019s first mission to Mercury, organized in cooperation with Japan \u2013 on its way toward the solar system\u2019s smallest and least-explored terrestrial planet. Ascending from the Spaceport\u2019s ELA-3 launch complex at 10:45:28 p.m. local time in French Guiana,&nbsp; Ariane 5 lofted its passenger during a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63776"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}