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The BepiColombo solar conjunction experiments revisited
Cappuccio, Paolo; di Stefano, Ivan; Iess, Luciano
BepiColombo ESA/JAXA mission is currently in its 7 year cruise phase towards Mercury. The Mercury orbiter radioscience experiment (MORE), one of the 16 experiments of the mission, will start its scientific investigation during the superior solar conjunction (SSC) in March 2021 with a test of general relativity (GR). Other solar conjunctions will f…
Comparison of light-time formulations in the post-Newtonian framework for the BepiColombo MORE experiment
Cappuccio, Paolo; di Stefano, Ivan; Cascioli, Gael +1 more
The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission, launched on 20 October 2018, is currently in cruise toward Mercury. The Mercury Orbiter Radio-science Experiment (MORE), one of the 16 experiments of the mission, will exploit range and range-rate measurements collected during superior solar conjunctions to better constrain the post-Newtonian parameter γ. The MORE…