Mercury Planetary Orbiter Instruments
On 26 February 2004, ESA issued the Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) payload request for proposals. On 15 May 2004 the proposals were received and evaluated by the international Payload Review Committee (PRC), assisted by the ESTEC teams and the industrial definition study contractors.
The Science Programme Committee (SPC) in November 2004 unanimously approved the PRC recommended payload for a feasibility and definition phase of one year. In November 2005 the SPC confirmed the selected BepiColombo payload. The payload for the Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (Mio) was selected by the Japanese space exploration agency JAXA.
| BELA – BepiColombo Laser Altimeter | ||
| Co-Principal Investigator | Co-Principal Investigator | |
| Nicolas Thomas University of Bern, Department of Space Research, Bern Switzerland |
Hauke Hussmann DLR Institut für Planetenforschung, Berlin Germany |
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| ISA – Italian Spring Accelerometer | ||
| Principal Investigator | ||
| Francesco Santoli INAF-IAPS (Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali), Rome Italy |
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| MPO-MAG – Magnetic Field Investigation | ||
| Principal Investigator | Co-Principal Investigator | |
| Daniel Heyner Technische Universität Braunschweig, Institut für Geophysik und extraterrestrische Physik (IGeP), Braunschweig Germany |
Chris Carr The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London United Kingdom |
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| MERTIS – Mercury Radiometer and Thermal Imaging Spectrometer | ||
| Principal Investigator | Co-Principal Investigator | |
| Harald Hiesinger University of Münster, Institut für Planetology, Münster Germany |
Jörn Helbert DLR Institut für Planetenforschung, Berlin Germany |
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| MGNS – Mercury Gamma-Ray and Neutron Spectrometer | ||
| Principal Investigator | Co-Principal Investigator | |
| Igor Mitrofanov Russian Academy of Sciences, Space Research Institute - IKI, Moscow Russian Federation |
Leonid Gurtvits Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe - JIVE, Dwingeloo The Netherlands |
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| MIXS – Mercury Imaging X-ray Spectrometer | ||
| Principal Investigator | Co-Principal Investigator | |
| Emma Bunce Space Research Centre, University of Leicester, Leicester United Kingdom |
Karri Muinonen University of Helsinki, Department of Physics, Helsinki Finland |
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| MORE – Mercury Orbiter Radio science Experiment | ||
| Principal Investigator | Co-Principal Investigator | |
| Luciano Iess University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome Italy |
Sami Asmar NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena USA |
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| Principal Investigator | Co-Principal Investigator | Co-Principal Investigator |
| Eric Quémerais LATMOS-IPSL, Guyancourt France |
I. Yoshikawa The University of Tokyo Japan |
Oleg Korablev Space Research Institute-IKI, Moscow Russian Federation
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| SERENA – Search for Exosphere Refilling and Emitted Neutral Abundances (neutral and ionised particle analyser) | ||
| Principal Investigator | Co-Principal Investigators | Co-Principal Investigators |
| Anna Milillo INAF-IAPS (Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali), Rome Italy |
Stefano Livi Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas USA |
Stas Barabash Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF), Kiruna Sweden |
| Herbert Lichtenegger Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz Austria |
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| SIMBIO-SYS – Spectrometers and Imagers for MPO BepiColombo Integrated Observatory - HRIC, STC, VIHI | ||
| Principal Investigator | Co-Principal Investigators | Co-Principal Investigators |
| Gabriele Cremonese INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova Italy |
Fabrizio Capaccioni INAF-IAPS (Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali), Rome Italy |
Pasquale Palumbo DiST - Università Parthenope, Napoli, Italy |
| Matthieu Vincendon Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale (IAS), Orsay France |
Alain Doressoundiram LESIA-Observatoire de Paris, Meudon France |
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| Cristina Re INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova Italy |
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| SIXS – Solar Intensity X-ray and particle Spectrometer | ||
| Principal Investigator | Co-Principal Investigator | |
| Emilia Kilpua University of Helsinki, Department of Physics, Helsinki Finland |
Manuel Grande Institute of Mathematics and Physics, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth United Kingdom |
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Last Update: 6 November 2024