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Italian ASI and French CNES sign cooperation agreement on experiments for ESA’s BepiColombo mission

Paris, France - Pursuing their longstanding and very complementary partnership

Pursuing their longstanding and very complementary partnership, ASI and CNES have signed an agreement to supply the French PHEBUS instrument (Probing Hermean Exosphere by Ultraviolet Spectroscopy) and the SIMBIO-SYS instrument suite (Spectrometers and Imagers for MPO BepiColombo Integrated Observatory System) under ASI responsibility for the mission. Scheduled to launch in 2017 on Ariane 5, the...

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Rome, Italy, 11/07/2013 10:51
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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