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Flyby Of Mercury Coming Up In NASA's Messenger Mission
January 10, 2008 — NASA will point a power-packed space instrument at some of the last unexplored terrain in the inner solar system when the MESSENGER spacecraft whips within 125 miles of Mercury's surface Jan. 14 at a ... > full story -
Scientists Gear Up For Mercury Mission Flyby Of Venus
June 4, 2007 — Researchers will scan Venus during a spacecraft flyby this week using an $8.7 million instrument they designed and built for NASA's MESSENGER Mission, launched in 2004 and speeding toward ... > full story -
Planet Mercury Has Molten Core, NASA Researchers Find
May 3, 2007 — Researchers working with high-precision planetary radars have discovered strong evidence that the planet Mercury has a molten core. The finding explains a more than three-decade old planetary mystery ... > full story -
ESA Working To Build BepiColombo
March 19, 2007 — BepiColombo, ESA's mission to explore planet Mercury, has been definitively "adopted" by the Agency's Science Program Committee. The mission will now start its industrial implementation phase, to ... > full story -
NASA Spacecraft Completes Successful Earth Swingby
August 19, 2005 — NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft, headed toward the first study of Mercury from orbit, has swung by Earth for a gravity assist that propelled it deeper into the inner solar ... > full story -
Mercury-Bound MESSENGER Launches From Cape Canaveral
August 4, 2004 — NASA's MESSENGER – set to become the first spacecraft to orbit the planet Mercury – launched August 3 at 2:15:56 a.m. EDT aboard a Boeing Delta II rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force ... > full story -
NASA Sending A MESSENGER To Mercury
July 26, 2004 — NASA’s first trip to Mercury in 30 years – and the closest look ever at the innermost planet – starts in August with the predawn launch of the MESSENGER spacecraft from Cape ... > full story -
Let Gravity Assist You...
October 23, 2003 — Imagine if every time you drove by a city, your car mysteriously picked up speed or slowed down. Substitute a spacecraft and a planet for the car and the city, and this is called a 'gravity ... > full story -
NASA Observatory Tracking Rare Solar Event
May 5, 2003 — The planet Mercury will pass in front of the sun on Wednesday, May 7 in an unusual event called a transit. NASA's Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft offers excellent, safe views ... > full story -
NASA's Mercury Orbiter Mission Passes Major Milestone
April 1, 2002 — The first mission to orbit the planet Mercury took a big step toward its scheduled March 2004 launch when NASA's MESSENGER project received approval to start building its spacecraft and ... > full story
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