Messenger Mission
Launch Status
Success
Date & Time
3 Aug 2004, 6:15am
UTC
Pad
Space Launch Complex 17B
Launch Service Provider
Vehicle
Mission
Messenger
Mission Type
Planetary Science
Destination
Mercury Orbit
MESSENGER was a NASA robotic space probe that orbited the planet Mercury between 2011 and 2015, studying Mercury's chemical composition, geology, and magnetic field. The name is a backronym for "Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging", and a reference to the messenger god Mercury from Roman mythology.
Updated: Feb 15, 9:28pm UTC
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