BepiColombo’s Monitoring Camera: Overview of Planetary Swing-bys
- ESA/ESTEC, SCI-S, Noordwijk, Netherlands (joe.zender@esa.int)
During its 7 years cruise phase, BepiColombo uses close planetary swing-bys to change its velocity and direction on its way to Mercury orbit insertion. The Earth Swing-by on 10 Apri 2020 was followed by two Venus swing-bys on 15 October 2020 and 10 August 2021 respectively. At the time of EPSC 2022, the first two Mercury swing-bys will have taken place on 1 October 2021 and 23 June 2022.
The poster will summarize the observations of the Monitoring Cameras during all fly-bys and the investigations done so far.
How to cite: Zender, J. and Benkhoff, J.: BepiColombo’s Monitoring Camera: Overview of Planetary Swing-bys, Europlanet Science Congress 2022, Granada, Spain, 18–23 Sep 2022, EPSC2022-98, https://doi.org/10.5194/epsc2022-98, 2022.
