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  1. Giuseppe "Bepi" Colombo (2 October 1920 in Padua – 20 February 1984 in Padua) was an Italian scientist, mathematician and engineer at the University of Padua, Italy. Mercury [ edit ] Colombo studied the planet Mercury , and it was his calculations which showed how to get a spacecraft into a solar orbit which would encounter Mercury multiple ...

  2. 17068 views 94 likes. ESA / About Us / ESA history. Professor Giuseppe ‘Bepi’ Colombo was a mathematician and engineer of astonishing imagination. His bald head and grey moustache of later years were a familiar sight in the corridors of both ESA and NASA.

  3. Apr 14, 2020 · Giuseppe (Bepi) Colombo (1920-1984) was a mathematician and engineer of astonishing imagination, whose bald head and grey moustache were familiar in the corridors of both ESA and NASA. Apart from his work on Mercury, Colombo invented tethers for linking satellites together.

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  5. Aug 17, 2021 · Giuseppe Colombo was an Italian rocket scientist born in 1920 in Padua . He studied Mathematics at the University of Pisa and eventually became a Professor of Applied Mechanics at the...

  6. Sep 5, 2019 · BepiColombo is named after Professor Giuseppe (Bepi) Colombo (1920-1984) from the University of Padua, Italy, a mathematician and engineer of astonishing imagination. He was the first to see that an unsuspected resonance is responsible for Mercury's habit of rotating on its axis three times for every two revolutions it makes around the Sun.

  7. Giuseppe Colombo (October 2, 1920 – February 20, 1984) was an Italian scientist, mathematician and engineer. He is better known by his nickname Bepi Colombo. He is known for his work on Mercury, inventing tethers for linking satellites together and is one of the initiators of ESA’s mission to Halley’s Comet.

  8. Giuseppe Colombo, better known under his nickname “Bepi,” was a mathematician, whose researches focused on celestial mechanics, the exploration of the Solar System, and space technology. In particular, he studied the spin-orbital coupling in the motion of Mercury around the Sun, the unstable areas of Saturn’s rings, and the motion of ...

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