Initial performance of the radio occultation experiment in the Venus orbiter mission Akatsuki

Initial performance of the radio occultation experiment in the Venus orbiter mission Akatsuki

Abstract After the arrival of Akatsuki spacecraft of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency at Venus in December 2015, the radio occultation experiment, termed RS (Radio Science), obtained 19 vertical profiles of the Venusian atmosphere by April 2017. An onboard ultra-stable oscillator is used to genera...

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Main Authors: Takeshi Imamura, Hiroki Ando, Silvia Tellmann, Martin Pätzold, Bernd Häusler, Atsushi Yamazaki, Takao M. Sato, Katsuyuki Noguchi, Yoshifumi Futaana, Janusz Oschlisniok, Sanjay Limaye, R. K. Choudhary, Yasuhiro Murata, Hiroshi Takeuchi, Chikako Hirose, Tsutomu Ichikawa, Tomoaki Toda, Atsushi Tomiki, Takumi Abe, Zen-ichi Yamamoto, Hirotomo Noda, Takahiro Iwata, Shin-ya Murakami, Takehiko Satoh, Tetsuya Fukuhara, Kazunori Ogohara, Ko-ichiro Sugiyama, Hiroki Kashimura, Shoko Ohtsuki, Seiko Takagi, Yukio Yamamoto, Naru Hirata, George L. Hashimoto, Manabu Yamada, Makoto Suzuki, Nobuaki Ishii, Tomoko Hayashiyama, Yeon Joo Lee, Masato Nakamura
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2017-10-01
Series:Earth, Planets and Space
Subjects:
Venus
Radio occultation
Akatsuki
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40623-017-0722-3

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