TY - JOUR
T1 - Mission Data Processor Aboard the BepiColombo Mio Spacecraft
T2 - Design and Scientific Operation Concept
AU - Kasaba, Yasumasa
AU - Takashima, Takeshi
AU - Matsuda, Shoya
AU - Eguchi, Sadatoshi
AU - Endo, Manabu
AU - Miyabara, Takeshi
AU - Taeda, Masahiro
AU - Kuroda, Yoshikatsu
AU - Kasahara, Yoshiya
AU - Imachi, Tomohiko
AU - Kojima, Hirotsugu
AU - Yagitani, Satoshi
AU - Moncuquet, Michel
AU - Wahlund, Jan Erik
AU - Kumamoto, Atsushi
AU - Matsuoka, Ayako
AU - Baumjohann, Wolfgang
AU - Yokota, Shoichiro
AU - Asamura, Kazushi
AU - Saito, Yoshifumi
AU - Delcourt, Dominique
AU - Hirahara, Masafumi
AU - Barabash, Stas
AU - Andre, Nicolas
AU - Kobayashi, Masanori
AU - Yoshikawa, Ichiro
AU - Murakami, Go
AU - Hayakawa, Hajime
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to deeply thank all colleagues of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (K. Kaminogo, M. Kusano, T. Sugimoto, D. Asa, R. Onogi, M. Sasahara, A. Nakajima, M. Koyama, and K. Genba), who designed, developed, and tested this complex MDP system for more than 10 years from the beginning of this project in the early 2000s. The authors would also like to thank all members in the MPPE, MGF, PWI, MSASI, and MDM teams for their huge contributions to the designs, development, and tests of the MDP and all payloads under various operation modes, including the special and emergency cases. The authors wish to express their deep appreciation to M. Noumachi, K. Hirako, N. Ishihama, S. Kuboyama, K. Matsuzaki, and M. Ueno for their valuable contributions and encouragement including the multiple reviews. The Japanese members would like to deeply thank the suppport of eSOL Co. Ltd, HIREC Corp., MHI Aerospace Systems Corp, SHIMAFUJI Electric Inc., and STAR-Dundee. The authors are also grateful to all Mio and BepiColombo project members in the world who are awaiting the successful end of this long travel to the hottest planet and the real start of the discovery campaigns from 2025. The MDP team would like to thank RISH, Kyoto University, for the long support of the Mio MDP test bench with many E-GSEs and payload emulators. Without this contribution, this work would not have been possible.
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PY - 2020/4/1
Y1 - 2020/4/1
N2 - BepiColombo Mio, also known as the Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO), is intended to conduct the first detailed study of the magnetic field and environment of the innermost planet, Mercury, alongside the Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO). This orbiter has five payload groups; the MaGnetic Field Investigation (MGF), the Mercury Plasma Particle Experiment (MPPE), the Plasma Wave Investigation (PWI), the Mercury Sodium Atmosphere Spectral Imager (MSASI), and the Mercury Dust Monitor (MDM). These payloads operate through the Mission Data Processor (MDP) that acts as an integrated system for Hermean environmental studies by the in situ observation of charged and energetic neutral particles, magnetic and electric fields, plasma waves, dust, and the remote sensing of radio waves and exospheric emissions. The MDP produces three kinds of coordinated data sets: Survey (L) mode for continuous monitoring, Nominal (M) mode for standard analyses of several hours in length (or more), and Burst (H) mode for analysis based on 4–20-min-interval datasets with the highest cadence. To utilize the limited telemetry bandwidth, nominal- and burst-mode data sets are partially downlinked after selections of data based on L- or L/M-mode data, respectively. Burst-mode data can be taken at preset timings, or by onboard automatic triggering. The MDP functions are implemented and tested on the ground as well as cruising spacecraft; they are responsible for conducting full scientific operations aboard spacecraft.
AB - BepiColombo Mio, also known as the Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO), is intended to conduct the first detailed study of the magnetic field and environment of the innermost planet, Mercury, alongside the Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO). This orbiter has five payload groups; the MaGnetic Field Investigation (MGF), the Mercury Plasma Particle Experiment (MPPE), the Plasma Wave Investigation (PWI), the Mercury Sodium Atmosphere Spectral Imager (MSASI), and the Mercury Dust Monitor (MDM). These payloads operate through the Mission Data Processor (MDP) that acts as an integrated system for Hermean environmental studies by the in situ observation of charged and energetic neutral particles, magnetic and electric fields, plasma waves, dust, and the remote sensing of radio waves and exospheric emissions. The MDP produces three kinds of coordinated data sets: Survey (L) mode for continuous monitoring, Nominal (M) mode for standard analyses of several hours in length (or more), and Burst (H) mode for analysis based on 4–20-min-interval datasets with the highest cadence. To utilize the limited telemetry bandwidth, nominal- and burst-mode data sets are partially downlinked after selections of data based on L- or L/M-mode data, respectively. Burst-mode data can be taken at preset timings, or by onboard automatic triggering. The MDP functions are implemented and tested on the ground as well as cruising spacecraft; they are responsible for conducting full scientific operations aboard spacecraft.
KW - BepiColombo
KW - Exosphere
KW - Magnetosphere
KW - Mercury
KW - Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (MMO)
KW - Mio
KW - Mission Data Processor (MDP)
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U2 - 10.1007/s11214-020-00658-x
DO - 10.1007/s11214-020-00658-x
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85082314485
SN - 0038-6308
VL - 216
JO - Space Science Reviews
JF - Space Science Reviews
IS - 3
M1 - 34
ER -