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A comment on BepiColombo’s First Views of Mercury. Parent comment

Re:BepiColombo’s First Views of Mercury by jcims on Monday October 04, 2021 @02:40AM (#28743767)
I’m always amazed at the precision of space probe operations.

It’s a bummer we don’t have better space propulsion systems, five years meandering about the inner solar system to get the right speed and angle to enter an orbit around mercury.

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Re:BepiColombo’s First Views of Mercury by Azrael3000 on Monday October 04, 2021 @02:44AM (#28743792)
Scott Manley did a great video on the probe and its approach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Sj9cjwFhQY
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Re:BepiColombo’s First Views of Mercury by KineticLensman on Monday October 04, 2021 @06:30AM (#28745045)
It’s a bummer we don’t have better space propulsion systems

Hey! I used to work for the company that made BepiColombo's engines [0]

[0] https://www.qinetiq.com/en/news/pioneering-qinetiq-solar-ele...

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Re:BepiColombo’s First Views of Mercury by jcims on Monday October 04, 2021 @08:17AM (#28745698)
Ah now i get the username! :D

Very cool!

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Re:BepiColombo’s First Views of Mercury by KineticLensman on Monday October 04, 2021 @08:43AM (#28745925)
Thank you. It actually started for photography reasons when I knew a (friendly) rival photographer who worked for one of our customer organizations.

[Edit] That and my liking for the Space Opera novels written by E.E. 'Doc' Smith.

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Re:BepiColombo’s First Views of Mercury by jcims on Monday October 04, 2021 @10:31AM (#28747219)
Ah! Nice! Works for photography and for a person that builds ion drives. I'll leave you alone now haha.
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