Geodesy, geophysics and fundamental physics investigations of the BepiColombo mission

A Genova, H Hussmann, T Van Hoolst, D Heyner… - Space science …, 2021 - Springer
In preparation for the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission to Mercury, thematic working groups
had been established for coordinating the activities within the BepiColombo Science …

ISA, a High Sensitivity Accelerometer in the Interplanetary Space: Updates after the Near-Earth Commissioning Phase of Italian Spring Accelerometer–ISA

F Santoli, E Fiorenza, C Lefevre, DM Lucchesi… - Space Science …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract ISA (Italian Spring Accelerometer) is a high sensitivity accelerometer flying, as
scientific payload, on-board one of the two spacecraft (the Mercury Planetary Orbiter) of …

Testing general relativity in the solar system: present and future perspectives

F De Marchi, G Cascioli - Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The increasing precision of spacecraft radiometric tracking data experienced in the last
number of years, coupled with the huge amount of data collected and the long baselines of …

Orbit determination methods for interplanetary missions: development and use of the Orbit14 software

G Lari, G Schettino, D Serra, G Tommei - Experimental Astronomy, 2022 - Springer
In the last years, a new generation of interplanetary space missions have been designed for
the exploration of the solar system. At the same time, radio-science instrumentation has …

Nested modalities in astrophysical modeling

E Castellani, G Schettino - European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 2023 - Springer
In the context of astrophysical modeling at the solar system scale, we investigate the
modalities implied by taking into account different levels of detail at which phenomena can …

A test of gravitational theories including torsion with the bepicolombo radio science experiment

G Schettino, D Serra, G Tommei, V Di Pierri - Universe, 2020 - mdpi.com
Within the framework of the relativity experiment of the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission to
Mercury, which was launched at the end of 2018, we describe how a test of alternative …

Exploring the temporal variation of the solar quadrupole moment from relativistic gravitation contributions: A fortuitous circumstance?

JP Rozelot, S Eren - Advances in Space Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Due to its oblateness, the Sun carries a solar quadrupole moment playing a key role at the
crossroad of fundamental solar physics, astrometry and celestial mechanics. There is …

ISA, a High Sensitivity Accelerometer in the Interplanetary Space

S Francesco, F Emiliano, C Lefevre… - Space Science …, 2020 - search.proquest.com
Abstract ISA (Italian Spring Accelerometer) is a high sensitivity accelerometer flying, as
scientific payload, on-board one of the two spacecraft (the Mercury Planetary Orbiter) of …

Exoplanets apsidal precession and analysis on their eccentricities

AJS Capistrano, PTZ Seidel, V Neves - Astrophysics and Space Science, 2019 - Springer
In this paper, we analyze a set of 34 exoplanets with different eccentricities. Starting from the
Weyl cylindric metric, we calculate the geodesic equations and propose a model with only …

Classical and relativistic n-body problem: from Levi-Civita to the most advanced interplanetary missions

S Di Ruzza - The European Physical Journal Plus, 2021 - Springer
The n-body problem is one of the most important issues in Celestial Mechanics. This article
aims to retrace the historical and scientific events that led the Paduan mathematician, Tullio …