Planetary Science
BEPICOLOMBO
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Launch
- Launch date
- October 20, 2018 at 01:45 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Guiana Space Centre, Kourou
- Launched by
- Ariane 5 ECA →
- Operator
- Arianespace
- Mission
- BepiColombo
- Launch record
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Trajectory
- Regime
- Interplanetary — Heliocentric
- Reference body
- Heliocentric
Spacecraft
- Operator
- European Space Agency
- Launch mass
- 4,121 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2018-080A
- NORAD catalog №
- 43653
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
- European Space Agency
- Status
- Operational
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