• Question: what do you do as a spacecraft engineer-bepicolombo and solar orbiter missions

    Asked by kellg003 to Alexander, Aron on 17 Mar 2014. This question was also asked by aabcrm123.
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      Alexander Finch answered on 17 Mar 2014:

      Hi! Actually, these aren’t Earth observation missions so I don’t work on them. Solar Orbiter is going to go examine the Sun, while BepiColombo will go and study the planet Mercury.

      That said, in one of my previous jobs, I worked with the team that built a magnetometer for Solar Orbiter, so that was kind cool. And I have seen BepiColombo up close as it came to where I work for testing recently. It looks really big and impressive!!

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