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Astrium and ESA sign contract for Mercury probe
After icy cold Mars and blazing hot Venus, European spaceflight is now turning towards the still largely unexplored planet Mercury. ESA has selected Astrium to build its BepiColombo Mercury probe.
BepiColombo is scheduled to begin its journey to Mercury in 2013, and is considered to be the most sophisticated scientific mission in the history of European space exploration to date.