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An analysis of the geodesy and relativity experiments of BepiColombo

Iess, Luciano; Imperi, Luigi; Mariani, Mirco J.

BepiColombo is a ESA-JAXA mission aimed to a comprehensive exploration of Mercury, the innermost planet of the solar system. The Mercury Orbiter Radio science Experiment (MORE) will exploit a state of the art microwave tracking system, including an advanced Ka-band transponder, to determine the gravity field and the rotational state of the planet,…