BepiColombo begins Mercury arrival with MTM separation success

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BepiColombo begins Mercury arrival with MTM separation success

European Space Agency · Official source · Sep 7, 2026, 8:25 AM UTC

On 3 September 2026 at 15:49 CEST, the European Space Agency's BepiColombo Mission Control Team at the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) received the signal they had been waiting for – BepiColombo’s Mercury Transfer Module (MTM) successfully separated from the spacecraft stack .…

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