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Magnetometer in-flight offset accuracy for the BepiColombo spacecraft

Plaschke, Ferdinand; Volwerk, Martin; Narita, Yasuhito +6 more

Recently the two-spacecraft mission BepiColombo launched to explore the plasma and magnetic field environment of Mercury. Both spacecraft, the Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) and the Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO, also referred to as Mio), are equipped with fluxgate magnetometers, which have proven to be well-suited to measure the magnetic f…