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The BepiColombo Mission #4 

MPPE


MERCURY PLASMA PARTICLE EXPERIMENT


On Things to Come Webinar with Yoshifumi Saito

Dr Yoshifumi Saito
JAXA, Japan

Wednesday, 7 April 2021 
4 pm GMT+8

or
Watch it live on Bilibili here!



Our knowledge of Mercury's plasma environment has significantly improved in the past decade thanks to new observations made by the Mercury orbiter MESSENGER. However, many questions remain unanswered. To provide more detail on this plasma environment, BepiColombo Mio was successfully launched by Ariane 5 from Kourou, French Guiana, on October 20, 2018, as part of a joint mission between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science/Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (ISAS/JAXA). The Mercury Plasma/Particle Experiment (MPPE) onboard Mio is a comprehensive instrument package used for plasma, high-energy particle, and energetic neutral atom measurements. It comprises seven sensors, including two Mercury Electron Analyzers (MEA1 and MEA2), Mercury Ion Analyzer (MIA), Mass Spectrum Analyzer (MSA), High-Energy Particle instrument for the electron (HEP-ele), High-Energy Particle instrument for ion (HEP-ion), and Energetic Neutrals Analyzer (ENA). High voltage commissioning of MPPE analyzers was successfully performed between June and August 2019 and in February 2020, following the completion of the low voltage commissioning in November 2018. Although all the MPPE analyzers are now ready to begin conduct observations, the full-service performance has been delayed until Mio's landing on Mercury. Most of the fields of view (FOVs) of the MPPE analyzers are blocked by the thermal shield surrounding the Mio spacecraft during the cruising phase. Together with other instruments on Mio—including Magnetic Field Investigation (MGF) and Plasma Wave Investigation (PWI) that measure plasma field parameters—MPPE will contribute to the comprehensive understanding of the plasma environment around Mercury, once BepiColombo/Mio will start conducting observations upon arrival at the planet Mercury in December 2025.

 

About Yoshifumi Saito

Dr. Yoshifumi Saito’s research focuses on rocket and satellite experiments to study space plasmas in the ionosphere and magnetosphere. As PI or Co-I in rocket experiments and satellite missions—such as Geotail, Nozomi, Kaguya, BepiColombo/Mio, and MMS—he has developed several space-borne instruments for low-energy charged particle measurements. Based on the data obtained through the rocket and satellite experiments, he studied elementary processes for transport and acceleration of space plasmas and global electrodynamics of the magnetospheric plasmas. New findings on the Moon plasma made by his instrument on Kaguya have led to new research on the interaction between the solar wind and non-magnetized airless bodies in space. 


On Things to Come Webinars

Schedule

23 September 2020
4 pm (GMT+8)
Geraint Jones – ESA Comet Interceptor Mission [YouTube/Youku]
21 October 2020 
8 pm (GMT+8)
Ralph Lorenz – NASA Dragonfly Mission [YouTube/Youku]
4 November 2020
4 pm (GMT+8)
Wang Chi – ESA SMILE Mission [YouTube/Youku]
25 November 2020
4 pm (GMT+8)
Heike Rauer – ESA PLATO Mission [YouTube/Youku]
9 December 2020
4 pm (GMT+8)
Takehiko Satoh – JAXA Akatsuki Mission [YouTube/Bilibili]
18 December 2020
4 pm (GMT+8)
Olivier Witasse – ESA JUICE Mission [YouTube/Bilibili]
21 December 2020
4 pm (GMT+8)
Tomohiro Usui – JAXA MMX Mission [YouTube/Bilibili]
13 January 2021
4 pm (GMT+8)
Weiqun Gan – CAS ASO-S Mission [YouTube/Bilibili] 
27 January 2021
4 pm (GMT+8)
Giovanna Tinetti – ESA Ariel Mission [YouTube/Bilibili] 
24 February 2021
4 pm (GMT+8)
Johannes Benkhoff – ESA BepiColombo Mission I [YouTube/Bilibili] 
10 March 2021
4 pm (GMT+8)
Gabriele Cremonese – ESA BepiColombo Mission II  [YouTube/Bilibili] 
24 March 2021
4 pm (GMT+8)
Go Murakami – ESA BepiColombo Mission III [YouTube/Bilibili] 
7 April 2021
4 pm (GMT+8)
Yoshifumi Saito – ESA BepiColombo Mission IV Register
14 April 2021
4 pm (GMT+8)
Daniel Mueller – ESA Solar Orbiter Mission I Register
21 April 2021
4 pm (GMT+8)
Stefano Vitale – ESA LISA Mission
6 May 2021
10 am (GMT+8)
Andy Cheng – NASA DART Mission
12 May 2021
10 am (GMT+8)
Robert Pappalardo – NASA Europa Clipper
19 May 2021
4 pm (GMT+8)
Saem Krucker – ESA Solar Orbiter Mission II
25 May 2021
4 pm (GMT+8)
Sami Solanki – ESA Solar Orbiter Mission III
2 June 2021
4 pm (GMT+8)
Athena Coustenis – ESA HRE Program
9 June 2021
4 pm (GMT+8)
Yuan Weimin – CAS Einstein Probe Mission
16 June 2021
10 am (GMT+8)
Evgenya Shkolnik – NASA SPARCS Mission
30 June 2021
4 pm (GMT+8)
René Laurelijs – ESA EUCLID Mission
14 July 2021
4 pm (GMT+8)
Tomoko Arai – JAXA DESTINY Mission
21 July 2021
4 pm (GMT+8)
Micheal Küppers – HERA Mission
9 Sept. 2021
10 am (GMT+8)
Lindy Elkins-Tanton – NASA Psyche Mission

 

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