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| Titel |
Contributions of ISA accelerometer to BepiColombo exploration of planet Mercury: status |
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Valerio Iafolla, Emiliano Fiorenza, Carlo Lefevre, David Massimo Lucchesi, Marco Lucente, Carmelo Magnafico, Sergio Nozzoli, Roberto Peron, Francesco Santoli |
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EGU General Assembly 2014
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Englisch
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| Digitales Dokument |
PDF |
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In: GRA - Volume 16 (2014) |
| Datensatznummer |
250092593
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 EGU/EGU2014-6948.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| To be launched in 2016, ESA mission BepiColombo will perform a thorough study of
the planet Mercury and its environment. Among the wide range of its scientific
objectives, an important set is constituted by the so-called Radio Science Experiments
(RSE), which will study the gravitational field and rotation of the planet, and will
perform very precise tests of general relativity theory. In order to reach the required
level of accuracy in recovering the relevant parameters, the data coming from the
high-sensitivity ISA (Italian Spring Accelerometer) instrument onboard the Mercury
Planetary Orbiter (MPO) will be used — the first time for a deep-space probe —
in the orbit determination and parameter estimation procedure. Following a brief
description of the RSE in the context of the mission, the instrument and its wide
capabilities will be reviewed. In particular the overall measurement procedure will be
discussed, along with recent and current work on instrument calibration (both on-ground
and in-orbit), operations planning, data handling and processing and archiving. |
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