page_title: BepiColombo
hierarchical_section_title: BepiColombo
caption_attribution_description: English: Artist's rendering, from NASA, of the constituent spacecraft of the European Space Agency's BepiColombo mission, in their cruise phase configuration. The Mercury Planetary Orbiter on the left and the Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter on the right, with a sunshade module at center.
context_page_description: BepiColombo is a planned European Space Agency and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency mission to the planet Mercury. The mission is still being planned. This means that the details of the mission are likely to change. Its planned launch date is 2014 and it is planned to arrive at Mercury in 2020.
context_section_description: BepiColombo is a planned European Space Agency (ESA) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) mission to the planet Mercury. The mission is still being planned. This means that the details of the mission are likely to change. Its planned launch date is 2014 and it is planned to arrive at Mercury in 2020.
caption: Artist's depiction of the BepiColombo mission, with the Mercury Planetary Orbiter (left) and Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (right)
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