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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…
Modeling spurious forces on the LISA spacecraft across a full solar cycle
Frank, Barrett M.; Piotrzkowski, Brandon; Bolen, Brett +2 more
One source of noise for the laser interferometer space antenna (LISA) will be time-varying changes of the space environment in the form of solar wind particles and photon pressure from fluctuating solar irradiance. The approximate magnitude of these effects can be estimated from the average properties of the solar wind and the solar irradiance. We…