Welcome to Luciano Iess's Homepage
On the left: the BepiColombo spacecraft, the MORE - Mercury Orbiter Radioscience Experiment - logo and team. BepiColombo is an ESA mission devoted to the scientific exploration of Mercury. Launch: 20 October 2018.
Interesting links and papers
Follow the links below for information on the missions where Prof. Iess and his staff of the Radio Science Laboratory participate:
Viewgraphs on Interplanetary Navigation:
- 1st part (pag.1-10)
- 2nd part (pag.21-40)
- 3rd part (pag.41-60)
- 4th part (pag.61-82)
- Full document (82 pages)
Interesting articles:
Relativity in the Global Positioning System (N. Ashby)
The rotation of LAGEOS (Bertotti and Iess)
The escape of planetary atmospheres (Catling and Zahnle)
Moon Meets Jupiter