Why Is Mercury So Difficult For Spacecraft To Visit? | The New Frontier | Spark

The commercial space flight companies are edging closer and closer to flight readiness. Paying customers will soon be launching into space; tourist revenue is projected to be a major stepping stone toward space exploration and colonization.
The JAXA-ESA joint "BepiColombo" Mission is moments away from launch. The target is Mercury, which has been too long neglected by the world's space exploration programs. This mission will shed new light on this strange, tiny world.
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[@Da5idc]

Your heading said Mercury! Why all the Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic fluff in the intro? Seems like clickbait to me

[@John-ir2zf]

Not only that, but they gave copious fluff to Bozo and Branson... and said little about Musk. The one guy, farther ahead in space launch capabilities than most nations on earth, including the US

[@sportmom2222]

Yes, what they showed in the beginning, has nothing to do with the title of the video. I hate when that happens!

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@@sportmom2222 this so called documentary is from five years ago with some added graphics, music and adds. It is always good to look back though

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24:38, finally the subject of the video's title! took you long enough.

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Still pisses me off that they throwing away those motors on the SLS rocket. They deserve better, like on a reusable rocket.

[@dhornbuckle92]

i love ya guys but most of the video had nothing to do with getting payloads to mercury like the title implied

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Flat earthers eat your heart out

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Amazing content. Interesting to watch till the end. Tnx 4sharing. Watching from DUBAI 👀

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at 8:30 the soundtrack sounds remarkably like a super smooth version of the hit song from 2008 with the Scandinavian girl vocalist. 😁

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Oceangate should have taken notes on how to wrap carbon fiber around a cylinder. 7:45 min

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9:05 “strap on booster”🤔 Now that’s something you don’t hear every day

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It's more difficult than spelling the word difficult @spark 😂

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Good one! Sounds a little dodgy but good one!

[@FirstNationsPisces]

It’s amazing how much these companies are hand and hand with the government! Who’s benefiting from this? The government for the space wars? Or humanity? Don’t get excited you just might be disappointed!

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[@trs8947]

Only scientists come up with so many excuses for a photo, anything else we learn is totally useless information

[@bpdubb]

This video is about rocket development. Not why it’s hard to get to Mercury. Thumbs down.

[@omaryounis9113]

yeah ... i know the answer : because of mercury planet is so near from the sun as well as the spacecraft will need more energy and may be destroyed before it's arrive the mercury planet ... genius phycisist from the brave iraq 🇮🇶 🇮🇶 🇮🇶

[@smokingdoobie2443]

mercury will be the moon of Venus eclipsing the sun like earth's moon does and speeding up venus rotation to harbor life 3 pyramids represents mars earth and vrnus we are a farm waiting for next harvest

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"Promosm"

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Not if Biden gets elected again! 😂

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Correction, not if he steals the next election like he stole the last election!

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