Aerojet, a GenCorp (NYSE:GY) company, announced today that NASA’s MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging) spacecraft has successfully achieved the first-ever orbit ...

Some key stages remain before BepiColombo's instruments sit in Mercury's orbit.

The planet Mercury is the closest planet to the sun, and also the most difficult for spacecraft to visit and explore. This is because as spacecraft get closer to Mercury, the sun's enormous gravity ...

The BepiColombo Mercury Planetary Orbiter Mechanical and Propulsion Bus Proto-Flight Model (the Structure with integrated heat pipes and chemical propulsion subsystem) has arrived at ESA’s European ...

The mission team is hoping BepiColombo can make it to its next gravity assist so that it can arrive at the planet in 2025. Reading time 2 minutes For more than five years, a pair of spacecraft have ...

This week the European Space Agency posted a slightly ominous note regarding its BepiColombo spacecraft, which consists of two orbiters bound for Mercury. The online news release cited a “glitch” with ...

The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission is gearing up for its next close flyby of Mercury on 19 June, when it will pass the planet's surface at an altitude of about 236 km. This is the third of six gravity ...

For most space missions, the launch is the headline moment. For BepiColombo, the real milestone arrives years later. After spending nearly eight years weaving through the inner Solar System, the ...

Underneath its Silicon Valley sheen, Apollo Fusion Inc. may be keeping a toxic secret. In Mountain View, Calif., a mile from the Google headquarters where its co-founder and several of its scientists ...