MESSENGER RSS Momentum Dump Maneuver Record (MDM)

MDM – Momentum Dump Maneuver Record

Instrument: MESSENGER Radio Science Experiment

PDS Data Set ID: MESS-V/H-RSS-1-EDR-RAWDATA-V1.0

For more information about the RSS MDM file, see the MDM File Description.

The Radio Science Subsystem (RSS) Momentum Dump Maneuver Record (MDM) file contains information on each momentum dump maneuver associated with each propulsive event. All of these events are commanded angular-momentum dumps; MESSENGER has not performed any autonomous momentum dumps. The primary purpose of the MDM file is to supply information to the navigation and Radio Science teams for use in their trajectory-construction analyses. A new version of the MDM file is created with each PDS release. There is one row for each angular momentum dump. There are seventeen named data blocks, including an unused block.

The MDM file is named thus MESS_RS_MDM.CSV, with its corresponding label file.

In ODE, the MDM file has the following product ID:

MESS_RS_MDM