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Pre-flight Calibration and Near-Earth Commissioning Results of the Mercury Plasma Particle Experiment (MPPE) Onboard MMO (Mio)

Yoshifumi Saito (1) , Dominique Delcourt (2) , Masafumi Hirahara (3) , Stas Barabash (4) , Nicolas André (5) , Takeshi Takashima (1) , Kazushi Asamura (1) , Shoichiro Yokota (6) , Martin Wieser (4) , Masaki Nishino (1) , Mitsuo Oka (7) , Yoshifumi Futaana (4) , Yuki Harada (8) , Jean-André Sauvaud (5) , Philippe Louarn (5) , Benoit Lavraud (5) , Vincent Génot (5) , Christian Mazelle (5) , Christian Jacquey (5) , Claude Aoustin (5) , Alain Barthe (9) , Alexandre Cadu (10) , Andréi Fedorov (5) , Anne-Marie Frezoul (11) , Catherine Garat (12) , Eric Le Comte (5) , Qiu-Mei Lee (5) , Jean-Louis Médale (5) , David Moirin (12) , Emmanuel Penou (5) , Mathieu Petiot (5) , Guy Peyre (13) , Jean Rouzaud (5) , Henry-Claude Séran (5) , Zdenĕk Nĕmec̆ek (14) , Jana S̆afránková (14) , Maria Federica Marcucci (15) , Roberto Bruno (15) , Giuseppe Consolini (15) , Wataru Miyake (16) , Iku Shinohara (1) , Hiroshi Hasegawa (1) , Kanako Seki (17) , Andrew Coates (18) , Frédéric Leblanc (2) , Christophe Verdeil (5) , Bruno Katra (2) , D. Fontaine (2) , Jean-Marie Illiano (2) , Jean-Jacques Berthelier (19) , Jean-Denis Techer (2) , Markus Fraenz (20) , Henning Fischer (20) , Norbert Krupp (20) , Joachim Woch (20) , Ulrich Bührke (20) , Björn Fiethe (21) , Harald Michalik (21) , Haruhisa Matsumoto (22) , Tomoki Yanagimachi (23) , Yoshizumi Miyoshi (3) , Takefumi Mitani (1) , Manabu Shimoyama (4) , Qiugang Zong (24) , Peter Wurz (25) , Herman Andersson (4) , Stefan Karlsson (4) , Mats Holmström (4) , Yoichi Kazama (26) , Wing-Huen Ip (27) , Masahiro Hoshino (17) , Masaki Fujimoto (1) , Naoki Terada (28) , Kunihiro Keika (17) , Iannis Dandouras (5)
Dominique Delcourt
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Shoichiro Yokota
Yuki Harada
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Alain Barthe
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Guy Peyre
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Wataru Miyake
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Andrew Coates
Frédéric Leblanc
Bruno Katra
D. Fontaine
Wing-Huen Ip
Naoki Terada

Résumé

BepiColombo Mio (previously called MMO: Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter) was successfully launched by Ariane 5 from Kourou, French Guiana on October 20, 2018. The Mercury Plasma/Particle Experiment (MPPE) is a comprehensive instrument package onboard Mio spacecraft used for plasma, high-energy particle and energetic neutral atom measurements. It consists of seven sensors including two Mercury Electron Analyzers (MEA1 and MEA2), Mercury Ion Analyzer (MIA), Mass Spectrum Analyzer (MSA), High Energy Particle instrument for electron (HEP-ele), High Energy Particle instrument for ion (HEP-ion), and Energetic Neutrals Analyzer (ENA). Significant efforts were made pre-flight to calibrate all of the MPPE sensors at the appropriate facilities on the ground. High voltage commissioning of MPPE analyzers was successfully performed between June and August 2019 and in February 2020 following the completion of the low voltage commissioning in November 2018. Although all of the MPPE analyzers are now ready to begin observation, the full service performance has been delayed until Mio’s arrival at Mercury. Most of the fields of view (FOVs) of the MPPE analyzers are blocked by the thermal shield surrounding the Mio spacecraft during the cruising phase. Together with other instruments on Mio including Magnetic Field Investigation (MGF) and Plasma Wave Investigation (PWI) that measure plasma field parameters, MPPE will contribute to the comprehensive understanding of the plasma environment around Mercury when BepiColombo/Mio begins observation after arriving at the planet Mercury in December 2025.
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Yoshifumi Saito, Dominique Delcourt, Masafumi Hirahara, Stas Barabash, Nicolas André, et al.. Pre-flight Calibration and Near-Earth Commissioning Results of the Mercury Plasma Particle Experiment (MPPE) Onboard MMO (Mio). Space Science Reviews, 2021, 217 (5), pp.70. ⟨10.1007/s11214-021-00839-2⟩. ⟨hal-03396007⟩
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