BepiColombo is continuing along an interplanetary trajectory which will gradually bring it to Mercury, the closest planet to the sun. The spacecraft has already covered over 450 kilometers out of a 9-billion-kilometer journey to its “red hot” destination.
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It stands for Collaborative Robotics for Assembly and Kitting in Smart Manufacturing, and it’s a European R&D project being conducted as part of the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 (H2020) program
A stakeholder in Singapore’s dynamic performance, Thales Alenia Space will be at the 12th Global Space and Technology Convention (GSTC) on February 14 and 15.