Solar System Missions: BepiColombo
Journey to MercuryBy Aira Astralis
Length1h 46m
About this audiobook
The story of the joint European-Japanese mission to the hardest planet to reach: why Mercury costs more velocity than Pluto, the orbital billiards of Giuseppe Colombo, the four-craft stack and its eight-year ion-propelled fall sunward, the furnace-class thermal design, sixteen instruments on two orbiters, Mercury's magnetic enigma and oversized core, the ghost exosphere and polar ice, the relativity test in the Sun's deepest accessible well, and the arrival scheduled for the end of 2026. No equations, for curious readers.
Audiobook details
GenreEducation and Learning
Length1 hr 46 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 14, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Title Page
2Introduction
3Chapter 1: Why Mercury Is the Hardest Planet to Reach
4Chapter 2: The Planet Nobody Knows: Mercury's Open Questions
5Chapter 3: The Solo Cartographer: The Orbiter That Went Before
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6Chapter 4: The Man and the Name: Giuseppe Colombo
7Chapter 5: Four Craft, One Mission: The Architecture of the Stack
8Chapter 6: The Long Fall: Launch and the Cruise to Mercury
9Chapter 7: Building for a Furnace: The Thermal Battle
10Chapter 8: The Instrument Suites: Two Orbiters' Cargo
11Chapter 9: The Magnetic Enigma: Mercury's Field and Bubble
12Chapter 10: The Coupling: How the Wind and the Field Breathe Together
13Chapter 11: The Planet That Shrunk: Interior and Crust
14Chapter 12: Caloris and the Face of the Sun's Neighbor
15Chapter 13: The Ghost Ocean: Exosphere, Escape, and the Weather of Atoms
16Chapter 14: Testing Einstein on the Approach: The Relativity Dividend
17Chapter 15: Arrival: Orbit Insertion and the Campaign Ahead
18Chapter 16: Conclusion: What the Mission Means
19References: BepiColombo
20Glossary
21About the Author
22Series Info
23Copyright
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