Problems in the BepiColombo mission to Mercury.
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They have announced problems in the BepiColombo mission destined for Planet Mercury, the smallest and closest planet to the Sun, this is a joint mission between the European space agency and Jaxa, which is the Japanese space agency, it was launched in October 2018 and is composed of two orbiters to explore the surface and interior of Mercury, as well as the magnetic field of this planet.
The current issue that is happening and where the mission is in danger is that this spacecraft has experienced a problem that prevents the spacecraft's thrusters from operating at maximum power, the solar panels and the electric propulsion system of the transfer module are used to generate thrust during the spacecraft's complex journey from Earth to Mercury, but on April 26, when BepiColombo was scheduled to begin its next maneuver, the transfer module failed to supply enough electrical power to the spacecraft's thrusters.
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