Ariane 5 successfully ...
(WorldNews Netherlands)

Two missions in one will travel 8.5 billion kilometres through the inner solar system Industrial consortium of 83 companies from 16 countries led by Airbus @BepiColombo@ESA_Bepi@esascience@ESA_MTM@JAXA_MMO#Mercury#VA245#Kourou@AirbusSpace Kourou, 20 October 2018 - The European-Japanese BepiColombo mission to Mercury was successfully launched this morning, Saturday 20 October, at 03:45 am (CET) from the spaceport in Kourou (French Guiana) on an Ariane 5 launcher. The satellite built by Airbus for the European Space Agency (ESA) and Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) is now embarking on its long journey of some 8.5 billion kilometres through the inner solar system, reaching our solar system`s...