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    To the launch pad!

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    Find out how our three new space explorers, Bepi, Mio and MTM, have been preparing for their epic adventure to Mercury
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    Our week through the lens:
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    Earth from Space

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    In this edition, Sentinel-2 takes us over the youngest country in the world: South Sudan
    Final assembly

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    BepiColombo experts describe the mission to Mercury as the three spacecraft modules are assembled in launch configuration
    Oil spill spread

    Oil spill spread

    The Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission returns images showing how oil is spreading in the Mediterranean Sea following a collision between two ships
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