A technology developed by Active Space Technologies (AST), a company located in Taveiro, Coimbra, will integrate a scientific mission to the planet Mercury developed by the European and Japanese space agencies and scheduled for January 2017.
According to information released today by the company, the technology in question has recently been integrated into the three spacecraft of the BepiColombo mission, in development by the Japanese partner, and will analyze the sodium levels of the atmosphere of the planet Mercury.
“It was one of the first prototypes we developed for space missions in 2006 and it is very gratifying to see our technology to be finally integrated in this phase of the mission,” said in news release, Ricardo Patrick, head of Active Space Technologies.
In the note, AST said that the purpose of the space mission “is to study exhaustively the magnetic field of the planet, its magnetosphere, the interior and the surface” of Mercury, the planet nearest solar system Sunset
On the internet page of the European Space Agency (ESA) reads that the BepiColombo mission is expected to be launched in January 2017 and that the spacecraft -. a transmission and two that will Mercury orbit around over a year, supporting temperatures of about 350 degrees Celsius – seven years it will take to reach the planet
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