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February 2007 Top Stories
»» ESA gives go-ahead to build BepiColombo
[Monday, February 26, 2007] BepiColombo, ESA's mission to explore planet Mercury, has been definitively 'adopted' by the Agency's Science Programme Committee (SPC) last Friday. The mission will now start its industrial implementation phase, to prepare for launch in August 2013.
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»» NASA MESSENGER Mission News: A Day in the Life of Mercury's Orbit
[Wednesday, February 28, 2007] MESSENGER isn't due to begin its orbit of Mercury until March 2011, but engineers and scientists are already rehearsing for the year-long observation of the "swiftest planet," through a series of Day-in-the-Life tests.
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»» NASA MESSENGER Mission News: Priming Instruments to Map Mercury's Crust
[Wednesday, February 28, 2007] Understanding if ice exists on the surface of Mercury, and if so what types, will mark an important component of the investigations by the MESSENGER spacecraft about the origin and evolution of the solar system's inner planets.
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