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Gravity field and rotation state of Mercury from the BepiColombo Radio Science Experiments
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In this article, a full cycle numerical simulation of the Radio Science Experiments of the BepiColombo mission has been tested with simulated tracking and accelerometer data, and the determination, by least squares fit, of a long list of variables including the initial conditions for each observed arc, calibration parameters, gravity field harmonic coefficients, and corrections to the orbit of Mercury.About:
This article is published in Planetary and Space Science.The article was published on 2001-12-01. It has received 111 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Gravity anomaly & Gravitational field.read more
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Theory of Orbit Determination
TL;DR: In this article, the problem of orbit determination is addressed and the N-body problem is used to identify weakly determined trajectories of a planet. But the problem is not solved in detail.
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Testing general relativity with the BepiColombo radio science experiment
TL;DR: In this article, a simulation of the BepiColombo radio science experiments is presented, with the purpose of assessing in a realistic way the accuracy achievable on each parameter of interest.
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The interior structure of Mercury and its core sulfur content
TL;DR: In this paper, depth-dependent interior structure models of Mercury are calculated for several plausible chemical compositions of the core and of the mantle, and the expected precision on the moment of inertia is estimated to a precision of about 50 km.
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The interior structure of Mercury: what we know, what we expect from BepiColombo
TL;DR: The BepiColombo mission is planned to very accurately measure the gravity field, the topography, and the tidal Love numbers of Mercury as mentioned in this paper, which can be used to improve on our knowledge of the interior structure.
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SIMBIO-SYS: The spectrometer and imagers integrated observatory system for the BepiColombo planetary orbiter
Enrico Flamini,Fabrizio Capaccioni,Luigi Colangeli,Gabriele Cremonese,Alain Doressoundiram,Jean-Luc Josset,Yves Langevin,Stefano Debei,Maria Teresa Capria,M. C. De Sanctis,Lucia Marinangeli,Matteo Massironi,E. Mazzotta Epifani,Giampiero Naletto,Pasquale Palumbo,P. Eng,J.F. Roig,Alessandro Caporali,V. Da Deppo,Stéphane Erard,Costanzo Federico,Olivier Forni,Maria Sgavetti,Gianrico Filacchione,Lorenza Giacomini,G. Marra,Elena Martellato,Michele Zusi,M. Cosi,Carlo Bettanini,Luciano Calamai,Mirco Zaccariotto,Leonardo Tommasi,M. Dami,J. Ficai Veltroni,Francois Poulet,Yann Hello +36 more
TL;DR: An integrated suite of instruments, Spectrometer and Imagers for MPO BepiColombo-Integrated Observatory SYStem (SIMBIO-SYS), which includes a stereo imaging system (STC), a high-resolution imager (HRIC) and a visible-near-infrared imaging spectrometer (VIHI), has been selected for the ESA BepIColombo mission to Mercury as mentioned in this paper.
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