Plus, it doesn’t have a crushing atmosphere like our nearest neighbor Venus. But, in fact ... it that much more impressive that the ESA and JAXA’s BepiColombo mission has almost reached ...

ESA had to abandon its Venus satellite Venus Express after eight years in orbit. At the end of April, Japan's space agency JAXA lost contact with the last Venus probe Akatsuki (あかつき).

BepiColombo is operated by the ESA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The probe launched ... The spacecraft has been flying by Earth, Venus and Mercury since 2020, use the planets ...