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The performance of the BepiColombo Laser Altimeter (BELA) prior launch and prospects for Mercury orbit operations

Oberst, J.; Stark, A.; Steinbrügge, G. +2 more

We explore the perspectives of the BepiColombo Laser Altimeter (BELA) onboard ESA / JAXA's Mercury mission BepiColombo and present an updated semi-analytical instrument performance model, in which we estimate signal-to-noise ratio, single shot probability of false detection, range errors and the accuracy of pulse width reconstruction. The model is…