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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…
Development and qualification of the Feed-Select Mechanism for the Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager on-board Solar Orbiter
Hirzberger, Johann; Woch, Joachim; Staub, Jan +5 more
The Solar Orbiter Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager (SO/PHI) will provide maps of the magnetic vector and of the line-of-sight velocities in the solar photosphere. For reaching its science goals, SO/PHI is equipped with two telescopes: the high resolution channel (HRT) and the full disk channel (FDT). Since both optical channels are fed into a …