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BepiColombo cruise science: overview of the mission contribution to heliophysics
Tekijät: Sánchez-Cano, Beatriz; Hadid, Lina Z.; Aizawa, Sae; Murakami, Go; Bamba, Yumi; Chiba, Shota; Hara, Takuya; Heyner, Daniel; Ho, George; Iwai, Kazumasa; Kilpua, Emilia; Kinoshita, Gaku; Lavraud, Benoit; Miyoshi, Yoshizumi; Pinto, Marco; Schmid, Daniel; Shiota, Daikou; Vainio, Rami; Andre, Nicolas; Aronica, Alessandro; Asmar, Sami; Auster, Hans-Ulrich; Barabash, Stas; Barthe, Alain; Baumjohann, Wolfgang; Benkhoff, Johannes; Bentley, Mark; Bunce, Emma; Cappuccio, Paolo; Delcourt, Dominique; Di, Stefano Ivan; Doria, Irene; Dresing, Nina; Fedorov, Andrei; Fischer, David; Fiethe, Bjorn; Fränz, Markus; Gieseler, Jan; Giner, Franz; Giono, Gabriel; Harada, Yuki; Hussmann, Hauke; Iess, Luciano; Imamura, Takeshi; Jeszenszky, Harald; Jones, Geraint; Katra, Bruno; Kazakov, Adrian; Kozyrev, Alexander; Laky, Gunter; Lefevre, Carlo; Lichtenegger, Herbert; Lindsay, Simon; Lucente, Marco; Magnafico, Carmelo; Magnes, Werner; Martindale, Adrian; Matsuoka, Ayako; Milillo, Anna; Mitrofanov, Igor; Nishiyama, Gaku; Oleynik, Philipp; Orsini, Stefano; Paik, Meegyeong; Palmroos, Christian; Plainaki, Christina; Penou, Emanuel; Persson, Moa; Quarati, Francesco; Quémerais, Eric; Richter, Ingo; Robidel, Rozenn; Rojo, Mathias; Saito, Yoshifumi; Santoli, Francesco; Stark, Alexander; Stumpo, Mirko; Tian, Rong; Varsani, Ali; Verdeil, Christopher; Williamson, Hayley; Witasse, Olivier; Yokota, Shoichiro
Kustantaja: Springer Nature
Julkaisuvuosi: 2025
Journal: Earth, Planets and Space
Tietokannassa oleva lehden nimi: Earth, Planets and Space
Artikkelin numero: 114
Vuosikerta: 77
eISSN: 1880-5981
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40623-025-02256-z
Verkko-osoite: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40623-025-02256-z
Rinnakkaistallenteen osoite: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/499601163
BepiColombo, the joint ESA/JAXA mission to Mercury, was launched in October 2018 and is scheduled to arrive at Mercury in November 2026 after an 8-year cruise. Like other planetary missions, its scientific objectives focus mostly on the nominal, orbiting phase of the mission. However, due to the long duration of the cruise phase covering distances between 1.2 and 0.3 AU, the BepiColombo mission has been able to outstandingly contribute to characterise the solar wind and transient events encountered by the spacecraft, as well as planetary environments during the flybys of Earth, Venus, and Mercury, and contribute to the characterisation of the space radiation environment in the inner Solar System and its evolution with solar activity. In this paper, we provide an overview of the cruise observations of BepiColombo, highlighting the most relevant science cases, with the aim of demonstrating the importance of planetary missions to perform cruise observations, to contribute to a broader understanding of Space Weather in the Solar System, and in turn, increase the scientific return of the mission.
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B.S.-C. acknowledges support through STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellowship ST/V004115/1, and STFC grant ST/Y000439/1 for Space Weather studies in the inner heliosphere during the BepiColombo cruise. French co-authors acknowledge the support of CNES for the BepiColombo mission. Work in the University of Turku and University of Helsinki was performed under the umbrella of Finnish Centre of Excellence in Research of Sustainable Space (FORESAIL) funded by the Research Council of Finland (grants No. 352847, 352850). E.K. and R.V. acknowledge the funding from the Research Council of Finland (SOLMER, grants No. 361480, 361483). EK acknowledges Research Council of Finland projects SolMer (grant number 361480 ) and Finnish Centre of Excellence in Research of Sustainable Space (grant number 352850), and European Union's Horizon Europe research and innovation programme project SOLER (grant agreement No 101134999). N.D. acknowledges funding by the Research Council of Finland (SHOCKSEE, grant No. 346902). We acknowledge funding by the European Union’s Horizon 2020/Horizon Europe research and innovation program under grant agreement No. 101004159 (SERPENTINE) and No. 101134999 (SOLER) and No. 101135044 (SPEARHEAD). The paper reflects only the authors’ view and the European Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains. S.C. was supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Japan JSP Fellows and JST SPRING, Grant Number JP23KJ0481 and JPMJSP2108. The MORE PI team acknowledges support from ASI under contract 2022-16-HH.1-2024. SERENA PI team is supported by Italian Space Agency (ASI)—INAF agreement no. 024-66-HH.0. ISA activities are carried out in cooperation and with the support of the Italian Space Agency ASI (under cooperation agreement n.2024-18-HH.0) and European Space Agency ESA (under contract No. 4000119356/16/ES/JD). The MGNS instrument team is funded by the Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education “Exploration” theme grant 122042500014-1. MPO-MAG is supported by the German Ministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz and the German Zentrum für Luft‐ und Raumfahrt under contract 50QW2202. YB is supported by MEXT/JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 21K20379. DS is supported by MEXT/JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP21H04492. KI was supported by MEXT/JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 24H00022 and 21H04517. The MIXS team is supported by the UK Space Agency.
