BepiColombo
Success
OCT 20201801:45:00 UTCAriane 5 sent the European Space Agency's Mercury Planetary Orbiter and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Mio magnetospheric orbiter on a journey to Mercury. It was the first European mission to the planet and the first to send two spacecraft there to measure Mercury and its surrounding environment at the same time.
LIFTOFF
OCT 20 201801:45:00 UTC
Success
launched from ELA-3 Kourou
aboard Ariane 5 ECA VA245 into Hermeocentric
Broadcast
Watch how the launch went
Payload
BepiColombo
Planetary exploration