SIMBIO-SYS Near Earth Commissioning Phase: A step forward toward Mercury

摘要

On December 2018, the Near Earth Commissioning Phase (NECP) has been place forSIMBIO-SYS (Spectrometers andImagers for MPO BepiColombo Integrated Observatory - SYStem), the suite part of the scientific payload of theBepiColombo ESA-JAXA mission. SIMBIO-SYS is composed of three channels: the high resolution camera (HRIC), thestereo camera (STC) and the Vis/NIR spectrometer (VIHI) . During the NECP the three channels have been operatedproperly. For the three channels were checked the operativity and the performance. The commanded operations allowedto verify all the instrument functionalities demonstrating that all SIMBIO-SYS channels and subsystems work nominally.During this phase we also validated the Ground Segment Equipment (GSE) and the data analysis tools developed by theteam.