MORE: An advanced tracking experiment for the exploration of Mercury with the mission BepiColombo

Acta Astronautica

Volumn 65, Issue 5-6, 2009, Pages 666-675

  Iess, Luciano ^a   Asmar, Sami ^b   Tortora, Paolo ^c  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEPICOLOMBO; CASSINI; CASSINI MISSION; DYNAMICAL MODEL; FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS; FURTHER DEVELOPMENT; GENERAL RELATIVITY; GROUND SYSTEMS; KA BAND; MULTI FREQUENCY; MULTIPLE FREQUENCY; ON-BOARD INSTRUMENTATION; ORBIT DETERMINATION; PHASE COHERENCE; PLANETARY INTERIORS; RADIO SCIENCE; RANGE-RATE MEASUREMENT; RANGING SYSTEMS; SIMULTANEOUS TRANSMISSION; SOLAR SYSTEM EXPLORATION; SPACECRAFT ORBIT; TRACKING SYSTEM; WIDE-BAND;

ASTRONOMY; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; EXPERIMENTS; INSTRUMENTS; INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT; MEASUREMENTS; MERCURY (METAL); MICROWAVES; NAVIGATION; RADIO LINKS; RANGE FINDING; SOLAR EQUIPMENT; SOLAR SYSTEM; SPACE PROBES;

INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT;

EID: 67349142607     PISSN: 00945765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2009.01.049     Document Type: Article

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