Once BepiColombo launches—as it is scheduled to do tonight—it’ll spend seven years making the roundabout trip to Mercury, which will include a flyby of Earth in 2020, two passes of Venus, and six different flybys of Mercury before it reaches the planet’s orbit in 2025. Once they reach their destination, the crafts will have the …
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