# @europeanspaceagency on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DeByp_lsRvx
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/71145617-europeanspaceagency-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/546258ad29.jpg
- **Posted:** 2026-10-03T10:00:39.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** J.L.Lopez (@xandler80) — https://gondola.cc/xandler80

## Caption

How do you wait for news of something that’s already happened?

On 3 September 2026, our team in Darmstadt, Germany found out. They sat in silence, eyes on the screens, while the answer made its way back to Earth from millions of kilometres away. This is the latest chapter of BepiColombo, the mission to Mercury we share with @jaxajp.

📹 @europeanspaceagency
🎞️ ESA/ATG medialab; ESA/BepiColombo/MTM, @creativecommons BY-SA 3.0 IGO, Acknowledgements: Emanuele Simioni (@mediainaf), Valentina Galluzzi (INAF), Jack Wright (@theopenuniversity), and David Rothery (Open University) for their involvement in image sequence planning; ESA

## Stats

- **Views:** 177,253
- **Likes:** 6,891
- **Shares:** 0
- **Comments:** 73

## Credits

| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ESA - European Space Agency | @europeanspaceagency | https://gondola.cc/europeanspaceagency | Government Organization |
| JAXA（宇宙航空研究開発機構） | @jaxajp | https://gondola.cc/jaxajp | Government Organization |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Producer |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Editor |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Video Editor |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Social Media Manager |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Senior Social Media Manager |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Writer |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Publisher |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Creator |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Copywriter |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Community Manager |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Social Media Coordinator |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Subtitler |
| J.L.Lopez | @xandler80 | https://gondola.cc/xandler80 | Screenwriter |

## Tags

space, europeanspaceagency

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