coreyspowell, 
Uh oh. The ambitious European-Japanese BepiColombo mission to Mercury has experienced a worrisome "glitch" in its thrusters.
Engineers are scrambling for a fix so the spacecraft can enter orbit around Mercury late next year, as planned.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/05/europe-is-uncertain-whether-its-ambitious-mercury-probe-can-reach-the-planet/ #science #space #astronomy #tech
