The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission to Mercury must withstand extremely harsh conditions while in orbit: temperatures in excess of 450 C, high ultraviolet and electron and proton fluxes. Sophisticated testing was required to decide how to build this mission to the innermost planet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P25wfGt4voc
The ESA-JAXA BepiColombo mission to Mercury must withstand extremely harsh conditions while in orbit around the innermost planet of our Solar System: tempera…
