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== Legacy == * The [[Giuseppe Colombo Centre for Space Geodesy]] in [[Matera]], Italy. * [[ESA]] awards a 'Colombo fellowship' each year to a European scientist working in the field of astronautics Several [[astronomical objects]] and spaceships are named after to honour him: * The ESA-[[JAXA]] mission to Mercury, which launched at 1:45:28 UTC on 20 October 2018, is named ''[[BepiColombo]]''.<ref>[http://www.esa.int/export/esaCP/Pr_40_1999_p_EN.html ESA Press Release: ESA's Mercury mission named ''BepiColombo'' in honour of a space pioneer]</ref> * The [[Rings of Saturn#Colombo Gap and Titan Ringlet|Colombo Gap]] in [[Rings of Saturn|Saturn's rings]]. * The asteroid [[10387 Bepicolombo]]
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