Programme - BepiColombo SOWG Meeting
Day 1: Tuesday, 25 March 2025 - SOWG day 1
- 09:30 - Welcome & Introduction - Geraint Jones, Raymond Hoofs (10min)
- 09:40 - Mission Status - Santa Martinez (10 min)
- 09:50 - Spacecraft + OGS presentation - Emanuela Bordoni (30 min)
- 10:20 - SGS planning system: status and operations readiness - David Frew (40 min + 15 min discussion)
- 11:15 – 11:45: Coffee Break
- 11:45 - Science Operations Analysis (SOA) results: Anna Hidalgo Larsson, Pablo Turrion (1h + 15 min discussions)
- Antenna validation for new Mercury arrival date
- 12:30 – Mercury commissioning Plan status – Raymond Hoofs (30 min + 15 min questions)
- 13:30 – 14:45: Lunch Break
- 14:45 - LTP discussion and strategies. - Sebastien Besse + Science Operations Scientists (2h)
- Instrument LTP-timeline
- PTR generation and content
- Consolidation of LTP process and procedures
- 16:15 - SPICE status - Alfredo Escalante (15min)
- 16:30 - MIO Science Operations Update (TBD) - Go Murakami (20mins)
- 17:00 – 17:30: Coffee Break
- 17:30 - End of Day 1 wrap-up and discussion (20 min)
- 19:00 - Social Gathering at ESAC
Day 2: Wednesday, 26 March 2025 - SOWG day 2
- 09:30 - Operations Discussions - Miguel Pérez-Ayúcar, Pablo Turrion (1h + 30min discussion)
- Includes: MTP001/MTP002 planning
- 11:00 – 11:30: Coffee Break
- 11:45 - Operations Discussions cont. - Miguel Pérez-Ayúcar
- 12:15 – Presentations from PI teams (15min per team; 3h block in total)
- Presentations expected to cover:
- PI team setup and roles for Mercury operations preparation and execution
- Science Operations at Mercury including calibrations
- Commissioning operations
- Main priorities for 2025
- Presentation order
- BELA
- BERM
- SIMBIO-SYS
- MORE
- Presentations expected to cover:
- 13:30 – 14:45: Lunch Break
- 14:45 – Presentations from PI teams – continuation
- Presentation order:
- SERENA
- MIXS
- ISA
- MERTIS
- MPO-MAG
- PHEBUS
- SIXS
- Presentation order:
- 17:15 – Review of Actions / Conclusions/ AOB/ Next Meetings – Raymond Hoofs, Geraint Jones (15min)
- 17:30 – End of SOWG
Day 3: Thursday, 27 March 2025 - DHAWG
- 09:30 - Welcome & Introduction - Geraint Jones + Mark Bentley
- 09:35 - Data handling for Mercury phase - Mark Bentley
- Changes needed to products and pipelines for Mercury orbit phase
- Ka-band files
- 10:00 - Data processing tools - Mark Bentley (with support from downlink team)
- Transition to new WebMUST/ARES
- Removal of parameter visualisation from BOA until post-ops
- PDS4 packager
- 10:30 - BepiColombo Archive
- MMO - Mio Science Center
- MPO - Mark Bentley
- 11:00 – 11:30: Coffee Break
- 11:30 – Instrument data processing and archiving status
- 10 minutes max per team, following guidelines to be given
- 13:30 – 14:30: Lunch Break
- 14:30 – Planetary Science Archive - Mark Bentley
- 14:45 – SPICE - Alfredo Escalante
- 15:00 – AOB - All
- 15:30 – End of DHAWG