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BepiColombo

BepiColombo is a combined European Space Agency and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency mission to explore Mercury, the least investigated terrestrial planet in our solar system.

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BepiColombo was launched on 6 October 20, 2018, and will arrive at Mercury in 2025. The mission is made up of two spacecraft: the Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO) and the Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO), which will orbit the planet at different distances. Our special interests include studying the magnetospheric physics of Mercury and its general interaction with the solar wind. We have build MEFISTO, an instrument measuring the electric field, which is a part of the PWI (Plasma Wave Instrument) consortium.

Team

Tomas Karlsson
Tomas Karlsson
professor
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Lars Bylander
Lars Bylander
research engineer
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Links

BepiColombo  (ESA)
Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter  (ESA)
Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter  (JAXA)

Instrument papers

Karlsson, T., Kasaba, Y., Wahlund, JE. et al. The MEFISTO and WPT Electric Field Sensors of the Plasma Wave Investigation on the BepiColombo Mio Spacecraft, Space Sci Rev 216, 132 2020, doi.org/10.1007/s11214-020-00760-0 .

Kasaba, Y., et al. , Plasma Wave Investigation (PWI) Aboard BepiColombo Mio on the Trip to the First Measurement of Electric Fields, Electromagnetic Waves, and Radio Waves Around Mercury, Space Sci. Rev., 2020, doi.org/10.1007/s11214-020-00692-9 .