General Space News.

[John Fedup]

Will be interesting to see how LM's Orion lunar spacecraft performs. If it screws up like Boeing's Starliner, there will likely be a new player to join Space X at some point.

 

[Sandhi Yudha]

This is a video of the closest flyby of a planet ever, as the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo spacecraft sped past Mercury during its latest encounter on 4 September 2024. The first few images are taken in the days and weeks before the flyby. Mercury first appears in an image taken at 23:50 CEST (21:50 UTC) on 4 September, at a distance of 191 km. Closest approach was at 23:48 CEST at a distance of 165 km.

In this video during the flyby, a large crater is visible. This crater is named after the famous Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741). The flyover of Vivaldi crater was the inspiration for using Antonio Vivaldi’s ‘Four Seasons’ as the soundtrack for this timelapse. And it really fits.
Timelapse of BepiColombo’s fourth Mercury flyby - YouTube

 

[John Fedup]

This is a video of the closest flyby of a planet ever, as the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo spacecraft sped past Mercury during its latest encounter on 4 September 2024. The first few images are taken in the days and weeks before the flyby. Mercury first appears in an image taken at 23:50 CEST (21:50 UTC) on 4 September, at a distance of 191 km. Closest approach was at 23:48 CEST at a distance of 165 km.

In this video during the flyby, a large crater is visible. This crater is named after the famous Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741). The flyover of Vivaldi crater was the inspiration for using Antonio Vivaldi’s ‘Four Seasons’ as the soundtrack for this timelapse. And it really fits.
Timelapse of BepiColombo’s fourth Mercury flyby - YouTube

These long distance remotely controlled missions rarely disappoint.