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Investigation of X-band and Ka-band amplitude scintillation based on measurement data collected during ESA's BepiColombo superior solar conjunction campaign

Chen, Shun-Ping; Lanucara, Marco; Villalvilla, Jose

Solar phase scintillation and solar amplitude scintillation are fundamentally important in deep space mission operations for designing a communication system capable of transmitting signals when the signal path is close to the Sun. The ESA's BepiColombo measurement data were analyzed in a previous paper in terms of the power spectral density of th…

The BepiColombo Laser Altimeter (BELA): a post-launch summary

Thomas, Nicolas; Hussmann, Hauke; Lara, Luisa M.

We provide a brief description of the BepiColombo Laser Altimeter experiment for the joint ESA-JAXA mission to Mercury, BepiColombo. The text describes the main elements of the instrument and discusses several of the problems encountered during the instrument development. The actions taken to mitigate the issues are also described and the resultin…

Radiometric calibration of the SIMBIO-SYS STereo imaging Channel

Cremonese, G.; Da Deppo, V.; Naletto, G. +11 more

The STereo imaging Channel (STC) is a double wide-angle camera developed to be one of the channels of the SIMBIO-SYS instrument onboard of the ESA BepiColombo mission to Mercury. STC main goal is to map in 3D the whole Mercury surface. The geometric and radiometric responses of the STC Proto Flight model have been characterized on-ground during th…