The full #BepiColombo stack seen in the Large European Acoustic Facility (LEAF) at ESA’s ESTEC test centre in June 2017. The walls of the chamber are fitted with powerful speakers that reproduce the noise during launch.
media representatives are invited to a briefing on 6 July about BepiColombo, the joint ESA/JAXA mission to Mercury, and to view the spacecraft before it leaves for Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, for launch next year.
