Launched ESA and JAXA's BepiColombo spacecraft, a joint mission sending two orbiters, Mercury Planetary Orbiter and Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter, on a seven-year cruise to study Mercury's composition and magnetic field.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Helio-N/A
- Heliocentric orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.1 T
- Flight
- 68th
- of 73 Ariane 5 ECA flights
- Date and time
- 20 October 2018, 01:45 UTC
- Rocket
- Ariane 5 ECA
- Builder
- ArianeGroup
- Launch site
- Ariane Launch Area 3, Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana
- Payload
- Planetary Science
- International designator
- 2018-080
- Launches in 2018
- 81st of 114
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