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BepiColombo Mercury Transfer Module undergoes Sun simulation test

Submit on Monday, March 11th, 2013 22:58

The engineering model of the BepiColombo Mercury Transfer Module has completed a 12-day Sun-simulation test inside the Large Space Simulator at ESA’s test centre in the Netherlands, where it received a taste of the extreme solar heating it will experience when it enters orbit around the Solar System’s innermost planet in 2022.

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