BepiColombo power struggle could leave probe short of Mercury's orbit

Thruster problems with BepiColombo, the joint ESA and JAXA mission to Mercury, could cause headaches for managers plotting the spacecraft's trajectory and insertion into Mercury's orbit. On April 26, as the spacecraft was scheduled to begin its next maneuver, the Mercury Transfer Module (MTM) "failed to deliver enough …

[Anonymous Coward]

the [...] SEP system has been "glitchy" for a while.

Presumably they were hoping Someone Else would fix the Problem ...? :-)

[vincent himpe]

Re: the [...] SEP system has been "glitchy" for a while.

Are they looking for Jinnan 't onnix ? I hope it's not the room temperature water version

[ravenviz]

+1 for boffins

/exploding head emoji

[Oneman2Many]

Those solar-electric ion thrusters were made in the UK by Qinetiq. However the problem doesn't appear to be with the thrusters, rather the power supply to them.