The European Space Agency (ESA) is Europe’s gateway to space. Its mission is to shape the development of Europe’s space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world.
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The composite ESA/JAXA BepiColombo spacecraft comprises the Mercury Transfer Module (MTM), the Mercury Planetary Orbit (MPO), a Sun Shield and the Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO). In fact, the BepiColombo mission is based on two spacecraft: the ESA-led MPO, a three-axis stabilised and nadir-pointing spacecraft with 11 experiments and instruments, and the JAXA-led MMO, a spinning spacecraft carrying a payload of five experiments and instruments.
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