Orbit of the Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) in the Gravity Field of Mercury: Implications for Surface Coverage with the BepiColombo Laser Altimeter (BELA)

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Oct 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011epsc.conf..886h&link_type=abstract

EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2011, held 2-7 October 2011 in Nantes, France. http://meetings.copernicus.org/epsc-dps2011, p.886

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The BepiColombo Laser Altimeter (BELA) is part of the payload of the Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO). The MPO is part of the ESA/JAXA mission BepiColombo. We investigate the orbital evolution of the Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) in the gravity field of Mercury. For the gravity field we use the low-order coefficients determined from radiotracking of the MESSENGER spacecraft during Mercury flybys [1]. Implications for the surface coverage with Laser tracks by the BepiColombo Laser Altimeter (BELA). In this work we investigate the orbital evolution of the MPO taking into account current knowledge of Mercury's gravity field obtained from the MESSENGER flybys [1].

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