A spaceship is there to hurl Venus and get it on… – AlKhaleej Today

A joint European and Japanese spaceship is about to fling the planet Venus and perform a short gravitational dance that will alter the vehicles course through space. This critical maneuver will take place shortly before midnight Eastern Time, and the starship will have to nail down its routine in order to reach its final destination Mercury within the next five years.
The spaceship that makes this planetary swing is BepiColombo, which is actually two spaceships packed into one. The vehicle con…

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