Determination of Mercury’s gravity field from radio-metric data of the spacecraft BepiColombo and MESSENGER

The research activity will focus on the data analysis of the MORE (Mercury Orbiter Radio science Experiment) investigation on board ESA’s (European Space Agency) BepiColombo probe during the first year of the mission’s orbital phase. The activity will include regular orbit determination of the spacecraft and the analysis of Doppler and range data to measure Mercury’s gravity field, also including in the analysis the non-gravitational acceleration measurements from the ISA accelerometer and the radio tracking data acquired by NASA’s MESSENGER mission