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Ep. 627: Mercury Revisited

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Is There a Future for Multiple Spacecrafts?

Mercury has a weird tilt because it's going around the ecliptic in the sky, and then the earth is tilted. So i guess bepy columbo arrives mercury 20 25. Yet ie said two spacecraft. They are going to separate and then explore mercury together. Yes. Andit's really an interesting new future that we're looking at where we have multiple missions simultaneously going to different worlds. If one of em fails, hopefully the other one will still keep going. It's an exciting day any time we can get just one spacecraft to a world,. But to have this new era of multiple spacecrafts is is, well, here's hoping that we have funding to support enough

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