The Mercury Orbiter (MeO) will carry out a full range of particles, fields, and planetary imaging science at Mercury. Present mission plans call for a launch in 1999 with a flight time of about 4.5 years. By means of multiple Venus and Mercury gravitational assists, the mission can be accomplished with present U.S. launch vehicles and a very large payload can be placed in orbit around Mercury. The dual-spacecraft concept will permit outstanding scientific study of solar cosmic rays and the solar wind throughout the inner heliosphere from 0.3 AU to 1.0 AU. Modest enhancements to the planned magnetospheric instruments and utilization of onboard solar instruments will permit unique investigation of solar particle acceleration and transport with the MeO spacecraft.
The Mercury Dual Orbiter mission
1990-01-01
Miscellaneous
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English
Hermes Mercury Orbiter Mission
NTRS | 1994
|British Library Conference Proceedings | 1997
|Online Contents | 1997
|Mercury Orbiter - An Interdisciplinary Mission
British Library Conference Proceedings | 1995
|A Mercury orbiter mission design
NTRS | 1989
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