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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…