The fluxgate magnetometer of the BepiColombo Mercury Planetary Orbiter

Glaßmeier, Karl‐Heinz; Auster, H. U.; Heyner, Daniel; Okrafka, K.; Carr, C.; Berghofer, G.; Anderson, B. J.; Balogh, A.; Baumjohann, W.; Cargill, P. J.; Christensen, Ulrich R.; Delva, M.; Dougherty, M. K.; Fornacon, K. H.; Horbury, T. S.; Lucek, E.; Magnes, W.; Mandea, Mioara; Matsuoka, A.; Matsushima, Masaki; Motschmann, U.; Nakamura, R.; Narita, Yasuhito; O’Brien, H.; Richter, Ingo; Schwingenschuh, K.; Shibuya, H.; Slavin, J. A.; Sotin, C.; Stoll, B.; Tsunakawa, Hideo; Vennerstrøm, S.; Vogt, Joachim; Zhang, Tiantian

doi:10.1016/j.pss.2008.06.018

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“…Additionally, stringent requirements on electromagnetic interference and magnetic cleanliness apply. The latter requirement is given by the fact that precise measurements of the interplanetary magnetic field and Mercury's planetary magnetic field are to be taken from the MPO platform [28]. Typically, the static magnetic moments of the instrument units of BELA Fig.…”

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“…were important to show compatibility with the magnetometer MERMAG [28] onboard MPO and have been carried out at the facilities of the corresponding PI institute of the Technical University of Braunschweig.…”

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“…It will form an integral part of a larger geodesy and geophysics package on board the MPO, incorporating a radio science experiment [26], an accelerometer [27], a magnetometer [28], and a stereo-imaging camera [29]. The combination of gravity field, magnetic field, and static and time-dependent topography data provides insight into the geology and interior structure of the planet and in turn into the formation and evolution history of Mercury, its interaction with the interplanetary magnetic field and into the dynamo process in Mercury's partially liquid core [30].…”

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Space-qualified laser system for the BepiColombo Laser Altimeter

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The space-qualified design of a miniaturized laser for pulsed operation at a wavelength of 1064 nm and at repetition rates up to 10 Hz is presented. This laser consists of a pair of diode-laser pumped, actively q-switched Nd:YAG rod oscillators hermetically sealed and encapsulated in an environment of dry synthetic air. The system delivers at least 300 million laser pulses with 50 mJ energy and 5 ns pulse width (FWHM). It will be launched in 2017 aboard European Space Agency's Mercury Planetary Orbiter as part of the BepiColombo Laser Altimeter, which, after a 6-years cruise, will start recording topographic data from orbital altitudes between 400 and 1500 km above Mercury's surface.

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Space-qualified laser system for the BepiColombo Laser Altimeter

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“…The determination of the spin axis component's offset, though, suffers from the aforementioned difficulties. Obviously, the situation is the same for three-axisstabilized spacecraft, such as Rosetta (Glassmeier et al, 2007) and, prospectively, BepiColombo's Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) (Glassmeier et al, 2010). So far, only few methods have been developed to determine fixed-axis component offsets.…”

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Spin axis offset calibration on THEMIS using mirror modes

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2017

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Abstract. A newly developed method for determining spin axis offsets of magnetic field instruments on spacecraft is applied to THEMIS. The formerly used determination method, relying on solar wind Alfvénic fluctuations, was rarely applicable due to the orbital restrictions of the mission. With the new procedure, based on magnetic field observation of mirror modes in the magnetosheath, updated spin axis offsets can be estimated approximately once per year. Retrospective calibration of all THEMIS magnetic field measurements is thereby made possible. Since, up to this point, spin axis offsets could hardly ever be calculated due to the mission's orbits, this update represents a substantial improvement to the data. The approximate offset stability is estimated to be < 0.75 nT year −1 for the complete course of the mission.

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“…Electric currents of ionospheric or magnetospheric origin (e.g., Baumjohann et al, 2010) inhibit the use of a scalar magnetic potential to describe the magnetic field. Especially for the analysis of planetary magnetic fields, new and modified separation techniques are required, and generalizations of Gauss' algorithm are necessary (e.g., Backus, 1986;Pulkkinen et al, 2003;Mayer and Maier, 2006;Glassmeier et al, 2010;Johnson et al, 2012).…”

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