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

Valeria Mangano; Melinda Dósa; Markus Fränz; Anna Milillo; Joana S. Oliveira; Yeon Joo Lee; Susan McKenna-Lawlor; Davide Grassi; Daniel Heyner; Alexander S. Kozyrev; Roberto Peron; Jörn Helbert; Sebastien Besse; Sara de la Fuente; Elsa Montagnon; Joe Zender; Martin Volwerk; Jean Yves Chaufray; James A. Slavin; Harald Krüger; Alessandro Maturilli; Thomas Cornet; Kazumasa Iwai; Yoshizumi Miyoshi; Marco Lucente; Stefano Massetti; Carl A. Schmidt; Chuanfei Dong; Francesco Quarati; Takayuki Hirai; Ali Varsani; Denis Belyaev; Jun Zhong; Emilia K.J. Kilpua; Bernard V. Jackson; Dusan Odstrcil; Ferdinand Plaschke; Rami Vainio; Riku Jarvinen; Stavro Lambrov Ivanovski; Ákos Madár; Géza Erdős; Christina Plainaki; Tommaso Alberti; Sae Aizawa; Johannes Benkhoff; Go Murakami; Eric Quemerais; Harald Hiesinger; Igor G. Mitrofanov; Luciano Iess; Francesco Santoli; Stefano Orsini; Herbert Lichtenegger; Gunther Laky; Stas Barabash; Richard Moissl; Juhani Huovelin; Yasumasa Kasaba; Yoshifumi Saito; Masanori Kobayashi; Wolfgang Baumjohann

doi:10.1007/s11214-021-00797-9

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

Valeria Mangano
, Melinda Dósa
, Markus Fränz
, Anna Milillo
, Joana S. Oliveira
, Yeon Joo Lee
, Susan McKenna-Lawlor
, Davide Grassi
, Daniel Heyner
, Alexander S. Kozyrev
, Roberto Peron
, Jörn Helbert
, Sebastien Besse
, Sara de la Fuente
, Elsa Montagnon
, Joe Zender
, Martin Volwerk
, Jean Yves Chaufray
, James A. Slavin
, Harald Krüger

Alessandro Maturilli, Thomas Cornet, Kazumasa Iwai, Yoshizumi Miyoshi, Marco Lucente, Stefano Massetti, Carl A. Schmidt, Chuanfei Dong, Francesco Quarati, Takayuki Hirai, Ali Varsani, Denis Belyaev, Jun Zhong, Emilia K.J. Kilpua, Bernard V. Jackson, Dusan Odstrcil, Ferdinand Plaschke, Rami Vainio, Riku Jarvinen, Stavro Lambrov Ivanovski, Ákos Madár, Géza Erdős, Christina Plainaki, Tommaso Alberti, Sae Aizawa, Johannes Benkhoff, Go Murakami, Eric Quemerais, Harald Hiesinger, Igor G. Mitrofanov, Luciano Iess, Francesco Santoli, Stefano Orsini, Herbert Lichtenegger, Gunther Laky, Stas Barabash, Richard Moissl, Juhani Huovelin, Yasumasa Kasaba, Yoshifumi Saito, Masanori Kobayashi, Wolfgang Baumjohann

Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali (IAPS)
Department of Space Research and Space Technology
Wigner Research Centre for Physics
Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung
ESTEC - European Space Research and Technology Centre
Space Magnetism Area
Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (CSIC/INTA)
Zentrum für Astronomie und Astrophysik
TU Berlin
Ltd.
Institut Fr Geophysik und Extraterrestrische Physik
Technical University Braunschweig
Space Research Institute (IKI)
DLR
European Space Agency
ESAC campus
European Space Agency / ESOC
Space Research Institute
Université Versailles-Saint Quentin
Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research
Nagoya University
Boston University
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
LumMat/RST/AP
Delft University of Technology
Gonitec BV
Planetary Exploration Research Center
Chiba Institute of Technology
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Department of Physics
University of Helsinki
University of California at San Diego
Department of Physics and Astronomy
George Mason University
Space Weather Laboratory
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Turku
Finnish Meteorological Institute
School of Electrical Engineering
Aalto University
INAF-Trieste
Science and Research Directorate
IRAP/CNRS
ISAS/JAXA
Institut für Planetologie
University of Münster
Dipartimento di ingegneria meccanica e aerospaziale
University of Rome
Swedish Institute of Space Physics
Tohoku University
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

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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.

Original language	English
Article number	23
Journal	Space Science Reviews
Volume	217
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-021-00797-9
Publication status	Published - 1 Feb 2021
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

BepiColombo
Cruise
Earth
Flyby
Mercury
Venus

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Mangano, V., Dósa, M., Fränz, M., Milillo, A., Oliveira, J. S., Lee, Y. J., McKenna-Lawlor, S., Grassi, D., Heyner, D., Kozyrev, A. S., Peron, R., Helbert, J., Besse, S., de la Fuente, S., Montagnon, E., Zender, J., Volwerk, M., Chaufray, J. Y., Slavin, J. A., ... Baumjohann, W. (2021). BepiColombo Science Investigations During Cruise and Flybys at the Earth, Venus and Mercury. Space Science Reviews, 217(1), Article 23. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-021-00797-9

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