The primary spacecraft sent to Mercury are NASA's Mariner 10, which made three flybys of the planet in the 1970s, and the MESSENGER (Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging) spacecraft, which orbited Mercury from 2011 to 2015. Additionally, the European Space Agency's BepiColombo mission, launched in 2018, is currently en route to Mercury and consists of two spacecraft: the Mercury Planetary Orbiter and the Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter. As of now, there are no robots or landers on Mercury's surface.
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