Article Dans Une Revue Earth Planets and Space Année : 2025

BepiColombo cruise science: overview of the mission contribution to heliophysics

Beatriz Sánchez-Cano (1) , Lina Z Hadid (2) , Sae Aizawa (2) , Go Murakami (3) , Yumi Bamba (4) , Shota Chiba (5, 6) , Takuya Hara (7) , Daniel Heyner (8) , George Ho (9) , Kazumasa Iwai (10) , Emilia Kilpua (11) , Gaku Kinoshita (12) , Benoit Lavraud (13) , Yoshizumi Miyoshi (10) , Marco Pinto (14) , Daniel Schmid (15) , Daikou Shiota (4) , Rami Vainio (16) , Nicolas Andre (17, 18) , Alessandro Aronica (19) , Sami Asmar (20) , Hans-Ulrich Auster (8) , Stas Barabash (21) , Alain Barthe (17) , Wolfgang Baumjohann (15) , Johannes Benkhoff (22) , Mark Bentley (23) , Emma Bunce (24) , Paolo Cappuccio (23) , Dominique Delcourt (2) , Ivan Di Stefano (25) , Irene Doria (25) , Nina Dresing (16) , Andrei Fedorov (17) , David Fischer (15) , Bjorn Fiethe , Markus Fränz (26) , Jan Gieseler (16) , Franz Giner , Gabriel Giono (15) , Yuki Harada , Hauke Hussmann , Luciano Iess , Takeshi Imamura , Harald Jeszenszky , Geraint Jones , Bruno Katra (2) , Adrian Kazakov , Alexander Kozyrev , Gunter Laky , Carlo Lefevre , Herbert Lichtenegger , Simon Lindsay (24) , Marco Lucente , Carmelo Magnafico , Werner Magnes , Adrian Martindale , Ayako Matsuoka , Anna Milillo (19) , Igor Mitrofanov , Gaku Nishiyama , Philipp Oleynik , Stefano Orsini , Meegyeong Paik , Christian Palmroos (16) , Christina Plainaki , Emanuel Penou (17) , Moa Persson , Francesco Quarati , Eric Quémerais (27) , Ingo Richter , Rozenn Robidel (23, 27) , Mathias Rojo , Yoshifumi Saito , Francesco Santoli , Alexander Stark , Mirko Stumpo , Rong Tian , Ali Varsani , Christopher Verdeil , Hayley Williamson , Olivier Witasse (14) , Shoichiro Yokota
1 School of Physics and Astronomy [Leicester]
2 LPP - Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas
3 JAXA - Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency [Tokyo]
4 NICT - National Institute of Information and Communications Technology [Tokyo]
5 UTokyo - The University of Tokyo
6 UTokyo | GSFS - Graduate School of Frontier Sciences [The University of Tokyo]
7 SSL - Space Sciences Laboratory [Berkeley]
8 IGEP - Institut für Geophysik und Extraterrestrische Physik [Braunschweig]
9 SwRI - Southwest Research Institute [San Antonio]
10 ISEE - Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research [Nagoya]
11 Department of Physics [Helsinki]
12 Department of Earth and Planetary Science [Tokyo]
13 LAB - Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux [Pessac]
14 ESTEC - European Space Research and Technology Centre
15 IWF - Institut für Weltraumforschung = Space Research institute [Graz]
16 Department of Physics and Astronomy [Turku]
17 IRAP - Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie
18 ISAE-SUPAERO - Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace
19 IAPS - Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali - INAF
20 JPL - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
21 IRF - Swedish Institute of Space Physics [Kiruna]
22 ESTEC - European Space Research and Technology Centre
23 ESAC - European Space Astronomy Centre
24 Department of Physics and Astronomy [Leicester]
25 DIMA - Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica e Aerospaziale [Roma La Sapienza]
26 MPS - Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung = Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research
27 SYSTEME SOLAIRE - LATMOS
Sae Aizawa
Emilia Kilpua
Mark Bentley
Bjorn Fiethe
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Franz Giner
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Yuki Harada
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Hauke Hussmann
Luciano Iess
Takeshi Imamura
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Harald Jeszenszky
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Geraint Jones
Bruno Katra
Adrian Kazakov
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Alexander Kozyrev
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Gunter Laky
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Carlo Lefevre
Herbert Lichtenegger
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Marco Lucente
Carmelo Magnafico
Werner Magnes
Adrian Martindale
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Ayako Matsuoka
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Igor Mitrofanov
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Gaku Nishiyama
Philipp Oleynik
Stefano Orsini
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Meegyeong Paik
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Christina Plainaki
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Moa Persson
Francesco Quarati
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Eric Quémerais
Ingo Richter
Mathias Rojo
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Yoshifumi Saito
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Francesco Santoli
Alexander Stark
Mirko Stumpo
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Rong Tian
Ali Varsani
Christopher Verdeil
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Hayley Williamson
Shoichiro Yokota
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Résumé

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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hal-05167499 , version 1 (17-07-2025)

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Beatriz Sánchez-Cano, Lina Z Hadid, Sae Aizawa, Go Murakami, Yumi Bamba, et al.. BepiColombo cruise science: overview of the mission contribution to heliophysics. Earth Planets and Space, 2025, 77, pp.114. ⟨10.1186/s40623-025-02256-z⟩. ⟨hal-05167499⟩
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