The Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging, MESSENGER, mission, launched on 2004-08-03, was mainly designed to study the characteristics and environment of Mercury from orbit. After an Earth flyby July-August of 2005, Venus flybys October-November of 2006, and May-June of 2007, and Mercury flybys December 2007-January 2008, September-October of 2008, and September-October of 2009, MESSENGER entered Mercury orbit on March 4, 2011. Much data of interest to the heliospheric community was obtained during the cruise phases between planetary encounters from a magnetometer and an energetic particle and plasma spectrometer.
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The Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging, MESSENGER, mission, launched on 2004-08-03, was mainly designed to study the characteristics and environment of Mercury from orbit. After an Earth flyby July-August of 2005, Venus flybys October-November of 2006, and May-June of 2007, and Mercury flybys December 2007-January 2008, September-October of 2008, and September-October of 2009, MESSENGER entered Mercury orbit on March 4, 2011. Much data of interest to the heliospheric community was obtained during the cruise phases between planetary encounters from a magnetometer and an energetic particle and plasma spectrometer.
| Role | Person | StartDate | StopDate | Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | ProjectScientist | spase://SMWG/Person/Ralph.L.McNutt.Jr | |||
| 2. | MetadataContact | spase://SMWG/Person/Lee.Frost.Bargatze |
Information about the MESSENGER spacecraft and the overall mission