BepiColombo’s second Mercury flyby

Key moments during BepiColombo’s second Mercury flyby on 23 June 2022. The spacecraft will skim the surface at an altitude of about 200 km at its closest approach, at 09:44 UTC (11:44 CEST).

Many of the in situ instruments will be on and collecting data as usual, and BepiColombo’s three monitoring cameras will also be activated. The images will be downlinked during the afternoon of 23 June and released over the following days.

Not to scale: the relative sizes of planets and spacecraft, and the attitude of the spacecraft is not representative.