ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission's MMO/MIO | On Things to Come Webinar with Prof. Go Murakami

The BepiColombo Mission #3 

MMO MIO


Mercury magnetospheric orbiter mio


On Things to Come Webinar with Prof. Go Murakami

Prof. Go Murakami
JAXA, Japan

Wednesday, 24 March 2021 
9 am CET – 4 pm GMT+8

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Watch it live on Bilibili here!



Mercury has a unique and complex space environment with its weak global magnetic field, intense solar wind, tenuous exosphere, and magnetospheric plasma particles. This complex system makes Mercury an excellent scientific target to understand the effects of the solar wind on planetary environments. Besides, investigating Mercury’s dynamic magnetosphere also plays a key role to understand the extreme exoplanetary environment and its habitability conditions against strong stellar winds. BepiColombo, a joint mission to Mercury by the European Space Agency and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, will address remaining open questions using two spacecraft, Mio and the Mercury Planetary Orbiter. Mio is a spin-stabilized spacecraft designed to investigate Mercury’s space environment, with a powerful suite of plasma instruments, a spectral imager for the exosphere, and a dust monitor. After the successful launch and the commissioning activities, Mio started science observations even during the interplanetary cruise phase. The Earth flyby and the first Venus flyby were completed on 10 April 2020 and on 15 October 2020, respectively. During the two flybys, science observations are performed and plasma instruments successfully measured both the Earth’s magnetosphere and Venus’s induced magnetosphere. Solar wind observations during the cruise were also performed by the electron sensors onboard Mio. We studied the opportunities of joint observations with other spacecraft such as NASA’s Parker Solar Probe and ESA’s Solar Orbiter and planned some coordination campaigns. Here we present the overview, science goals, updated status, initial results during the cruise, and the upcoming observation plans of BepiColombo/Mio.

 

ABOUT GO MURAKAMI

Go Murakami is an Assistant Professor working at the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). He is the Project Scientist of the ESA-JAXA joint mission BepiColombo for the Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter: Mio. He received his Ph.D. from The University of Tokyo in 2011, and his scientific expertise is solar-terrestrial plasma physics and planetary atmospheric science. Between 2011-2017, he worked at JAXA/ISAS as a research fellow on the developments and observations of Japanese ultraviolet space telescope Hisaki and the BepiColombo mission. In 2017 he obtained his current position at JAXA/ISAS and, since then, he works on the BepiColombo/Mio scientific plan and studies.---
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, MPO  [YouTube/Bilibili] 
10 March 2021
4 pm (GMT+8)
Gabriele Cremonese – ESA BepiColombo Mission II, SIMBIO-SYS [YouTube/Bilibili]
24 March 2021
4 pm (GMT+8)
Go Murakami – ESA BepiColombo Mission III
7 April 2021
4 pm (GMT+8)
Yoshifumi Saito – ESA BepiColombo Mission IV
14 April 2021
4 pm (GMT+8)
Daniel Mueller – ESA Solar Orbiter Mission I
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
9 Sept. 2021
10 am (GMT+8)
Lindy Elkins-Tanton – NASA Psyche Mission

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