Medicine & TechnologySolar Orbiter successfully completed its second Venus flyby 33 hours before BepiColombo's flyby. The spacecraft is 5,000 miles from Venus and will now head to its main mission, the Sun.
All eyes set on Venus as two flybys by Solar Orbiter and BeopiColombo are set to happen this week as a bonus before the two probes reach their main missions in the Solar System.