Another long term science mission launched into Space – ESA’s BepiColombo spacecraft is off to its seven years journey to Mercury. I have prepared and directed the press and media briefing in Darmstadt on behalf of the European Space Agency, which has been the first of many events to come until the probe will arrive at our smalles neighbouring planet in 2025. [image: J. Mai]

While it became the most cited witticism to postpone the launch of a wind mission for the reason of strong winds, we have passed all the rest of solid background information about the first European wind measuring satellite to the media and VIP guests at the launch event of the Aeolus satellite in Darmstadt. Despite the extreme short preparations time and the event’s postponement, all went well and was conducted professionally at unusually low costs. Is this the future of communications?