4 papers
A novel pointing technique for the enhancement of Tropospheric Delay Calibration System performances
David Bernacchia, Riccardo Lasagni Manghi, Marco Zannoni +5
The beam-crossing is a novel technique aimed at reducing residual tropospheric Doppler noise for microwave radiometer calibrations. In this work, we report the findings of the firs…
Stellar occultations in support of the LUMIO orbit determination
Davide Banzi, Riccardo Lasagni Manghi, Marco Zannoni
This work investigates the use of stellar occultation measurements to enhance the orbit determination performance of the Lunar Meteoroid Impact Observer (LUMIO) mission, operating…
A Radio Science Experiment for the Ramses Mission to Apophis
Riccardo Lasagni Manghi, Marco Zannoni, Edoardo Gramigna +6
This paper outlines the Radio Science Experiment (RSE) proposed for the RAMSES mission to asteroid (99942) Apophis, which will undergo a close Earth encounter in April 2029. This e…
Radio Science Investigations for the Heavy Metal Mission to Asteroid (216) Kleopatra
Paolo Tortora, Riccardo Lasagni Manghi, Edoardo Gramigna +3
This work presents the simulation results of the radio science experiment onboard the proposed Heavy Metal mission to the M-type asteroid (216) Kleopatra. Earth-based radiometric m…