BepiColombo Science Investigations During Cruise and Flybys at the Earth, Venus and Mercury

Mangano, Valeria and Dósa, Melinda and Franz, Markus and Milillo, Anna and Oliveira, Joana S. and Lee, Yeon Joo and McKenna-Lawlor, Susan and Grassi, Davide and Heyner, Daniel and Kozyrev, Alexander S. and Peron, Roberto and Helbert, Jörn and Besse, Sebastien and de la Fuente, Sara and Montagnon, Elsa and Zender, Joe and Volwerk, Martin and Chaufray, Jean-Yves and Slavin, James A. and Krüger, Harald and Maturilli, Alessandro and Cornet, Thomas and Iwai, Kazumasa and Miyoshi, Yoshizumi and Lucente, Marco and Massetti, Stefano and Schmidt, Carl A. and Dong, Chuanfei and Quarati, Francesco and Hirai, Takayuki and Varsani, Ali and Belyaev, Denis and Zhong, Jun and Kilpua, Emilia K. J. and Jackson, Bernard V. and Odstrcil, Dusan and Plaschke, Ferdinand and Vainio, Rami and Jarvinen, Riku and Ivanovski, Stavro Lambrov and Madar, Akos and Erdös, Géza and Plainaki, Christina and Alberti, Tommaso and Aizawa, Sae and Benkhoff, Johannes and Murakami, Go and Quemerais, Eric and Hiesinger, H. and Mitrofanov, Igor G. and Iess, Luciano and Santoli, Francesco and Orsini, Stefano and Lichtenegger, Herbert and Laky, Gunther and Barabash, Stas and Moissl, Richard and Huovelin, Juhani and Kasaba, Yasumasa and Saito, Yoshifumi and Kobayashi, Masanori and Baumjohann, Wolfgang (2021) BepiColombo Science Investigations During Cruise and Flybys at the Earth, Venus and Mercury. Space Science Reviews, 217, p. 23. Springer. doi: 10.1007/s11214-021-00797-9. ISSN 0038-6308.

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Abstract

The dual spacecraft mission BepiColombo is the first joint mission between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to explore the planet Mercury. BepiColombo was launched from Kourou (French Guiana) on October 20th, 2018, in its packed configuration including two spacecraft, a transfer module, and a sunshield. BepiColombo cruise trajectory is a long journey into the inner heliosphere, and it includes one flyby of the Earth (in April 2020), two of Venus (in October 2020 and August 2021), and six of Mercury (starting from 2021), before orbit insertion in December 2025. A big part of the mission instruments will be fully operational during the mission cruise phase, allowing unprecedented investigation of the different environments that will encounter during the 7-years long cruise. The present paper reviews all the planetary flybys and some interesting cruise configurations. Additional scientific research that will emerge in the coming years is also discussed, including the instruments that can contribute.

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Article

Title:

BepiColombo Science Investigations During Cruise and Flybys at the Earth, Venus and Mercury

Authors:

Authors	Institution or Email of Authors	Author's ORCID iD
Mangano, Valeria	INAF-IAPS (Institute for Astrophysics and Planetology from Space), via del Fosso del Cavaliere 100, 00133, Rome, Italy	UNSPECIFIED
Dósa, Melinda	Department of Space Research and Space Technology, Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary	UNSPECIFIED
Franz, Markus	Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Goettingen, Germany	UNSPECIFIED
Milillo, Anna	INAF-IAPS (Institute for Astrophysics and Planetology from Space), via del Fosso del Cavaliere 100, 00133, Rome, Italy	UNSPECIFIED
Oliveira, Joana S.	Science Division, European Space Agency (ESA), European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), Noordwijk, The Netherlands; Space Magnetism Area, Payloads and Space Sciences Department, INTA, Torrejón de Ardoz, Spain	UNSPECIFIED
Lee, Yeon Joo	Zentrum für Astronomie und Astrophysik, Technische Universität, Berlin, Germany	UNSPECIFIED
McKenna-Lawlor, Susan	Space Technology Ireland, Ltd., Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland	UNSPECIFIED
Grassi, Davide	INAF-IAPS (Institute for Astrophysics and Planetology from Space), via del Fosso del Cavaliere 100, 00133, Rome, Italy	UNSPECIFIED
Heyner, Daniel	Institut für Geophysik und extraterrestrische Physik, Technische Universität, Braunschweig,Germany	UNSPECIFIED
Kozyrev, Alexander S.	Institute for Space Research, Moscow, Russian Federation	UNSPECIFIED
Peron, Roberto	INAF-IAPS (Institute for Astrophysics and Planetology from Space), via del Fosso del Cavaliere 100, 00133, Rome, Italy	UNSPECIFIED
Helbert, Jörn	Joern.Helbert (at) dlr.de	https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5346-9505
Besse, Sebastien	Aurora Technology B.V. for ESA, European Space Agency, Madrid, Spain	UNSPECIFIED
de la Fuente, Sara	ESA/ESAC, Villanueva de la Canada, Spain	UNSPECIFIED
Montagnon, Elsa	ESA/ESOC, Darmstadt, Germany	UNSPECIFIED
Zender, Joe	Science Division, European Space Agency (ESA), European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), Noordwijk, The Netherlands	UNSPECIFIED
Volwerk, Martin	Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria	UNSPECIFIED
Chaufray, Jean-Yves	LATMOS, Université Versailles Saint-Quentin, Guyancourt, France	UNSPECIFIED
Slavin, James A.	Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA	UNSPECIFIED
Krüger, Harald	MPS, Göttingen, Germany	UNSPECIFIED
Maturilli, Alessandro	Alessandro.Maturilli (at) dlr.de	https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4613-9799
Cornet, Thomas	Aurora Technology B.V. for ESA, European Space Agency, Madrid, Spain	UNSPECIFIED
Iwai, Kazumasa	Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, 464-8601, Japan	UNSPECIFIED
Miyoshi, Yoshizumi	Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, 464-8601, Japan	UNSPECIFIED
Lucente, Marco	INAF-IAPS (Institute for Astrophysics and Planetology from Space), via del Fosso del Cavaliere 100, 00133, Rome, Italy	UNSPECIFIED
Massetti, Stefano	INAF-IAPS (Institute for Astrophysics and Planetology from Space), via del Fosso del Cavaliere 100, 00133, Rome, Italy	UNSPECIFIED
Schmidt, Carl A.	Boston University, Boston, USA	UNSPECIFIED
Dong, Chuanfei	Department of Astrophysical Sciences and Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA	UNSPECIFIED
Quarati, Francesco	LumMat/RST/AP, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands; Gonitec BV, Den Haag, The Netherlands	UNSPECIFIED
Hirai, Takayuki	Planetary Exploration Research Center (PERC), Chiba Institute of Technology, Chiba, Japan	UNSPECIFIED
Varsani, Ali	Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria	UNSPECIFIED
Belyaev, Denis	Space Research Institute (IKI), Moscow, Russia	UNSPECIFIED
Zhong, Jun	Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China	UNSPECIFIED
Kilpua, Emilia K. J.	Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland	UNSPECIFIED
Jackson, Bernard V.	Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA,USA	UNSPECIFIED
Odstrcil, Dusan	Department of Physics and Astronomy, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA; NASA/GSFC Heliophysics Science Division, Space Weather Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, USA	UNSPECIFIED
Plaschke, Ferdinand	Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria	UNSPECIFIED
Vainio, Rami	Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Turku, Turku, Finland	UNSPECIFIED
Jarvinen, Riku	Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland; Department of Electronics and Nanoengineering, School of Electrical Engineering, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland	UNSPECIFIED
Ivanovski, Stavro Lambrov	INAF-OATs (Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste), Trieste, Italy	UNSPECIFIED
Madar, Akos	Department of Space Research and Space Technology, Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary	UNSPECIFIED
Erdös, Géza	Department of Space Research and Space Technology, Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary	UNSPECIFIED
Plainaki, Christina	Italian Space Agency, Rome, Italy	UNSPECIFIED
Alberti, Tommaso	INAF-IAPS (Institute for Astrophysics and Planetology from Space), via del Fosso del Cavaliere 100, 00133, Rome, Italy	UNSPECIFIED
Aizawa, Sae	nstitut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie, CNRS, CNES, Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France	UNSPECIFIED
Benkhoff, Johannes	Science Division, European Space Agency (ESA), European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), Noordwijk, The Netherlands	UNSPECIFIED
Murakami, Go	Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Sagamihara, Kanagawa 252-5210, Japan	UNSPECIFIED
Quemerais, Eric	LATMOS, Université Versailles Saint-Quentin, Guyancourt, France	UNSPECIFIED
Hiesinger, H.	Institut für Planetologie, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, Germany	UNSPECIFIED
Mitrofanov, Igor G.	Institute for Space Research, Moscow, Russian Federation	UNSPECIFIED
Iess, Luciano	Dipartimento di ingegneria meccanica e aerospaziale, Università La Sapienza, Roma, Italy	UNSPECIFIED
Santoli, Francesco	INAF-IAPS (Institute for Astrophysics and Planetology from Space), via del Fosso del Cavaliere 100, 00133, Rome, Italy	UNSPECIFIED
Orsini, Stefano	INAF-IAPS (Institute for Astrophysics and Planetology from Space), via del Fosso del Cavaliere 100, 00133, Rome, Italy	UNSPECIFIED
Lichtenegger, Herbert	Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria	UNSPECIFIED
Laky, Gunther	Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria	UNSPECIFIED
Barabash, Stas	Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Kiruna, Sweden	UNSPECIFIED
Moissl, Richard	Research and Scientific Support Department, ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands	UNSPECIFIED
Huovelin, Juhani	Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland	UNSPECIFIED
Kasaba, Yasumasa	Planetary Plasma and Atmospheric Research Center, Graduate School of Science, TohokuUniversity, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8578, Japan	UNSPECIFIED
Saito, Yoshifumi	Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Sagamihara,Kanagawa 252-5210, Japan	UNSPECIFIED
Kobayashi, Masanori	Planetary Exploration Research Center, Chiba Institute of Technology, 2-17-1, Tsudanuma,Narashino, Chiba 275-0016, Japan	UNSPECIFIED
Baumjohann, Wolfgang	Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria	UNSPECIFIED

Date:

February 2021

Journal or Publication Title:

Space Science Reviews

Refereed publication:

Yes

Open Access:

Yes

Gold Open Access:

In SCOPUS:

Yes

In ISI Web of Science:

Yes

Volume:

217

DOI :

10.1007/s11214-021-00797-9

Page Range:

p. 23

Publisher:

Springer

ISSN:

0038-6308

Status:

Published

Keywords:

Bepicolombo, Mercury, MERTIS

HGF - Research field:

Aeronautics, Space and Transport

HGF - Program:

Space

HGF - Program Themes:

Space Exploration

DLR - Research area:

Raumfahrt

DLR - Program:

R EW - Space Exploration

DLR - Research theme (Project):

R - Project BepiColombo - MERTIS and BELA

Location:

Berlin-Adlershof

Institutes and Institutions:

Institute of Planetary Research > Planetary Laboratories
Institute of Planetary Research > Extrasolar Planets and Atmospheres

Deposited By:

Maturilli, Dr. Alessandro

Deposited On:

01 Jun 2021 08:31

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24 Nov 2021 13:30

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