MESSENGER RSS Supplementary Data Collection

ODE: Mercury, Venus

Mission: MESSENGER

Instrument: MESSENGER Radio Science

PDS Planetary Plasma Interactions Node: PDS Source Information

PDS4 Bundle: urn:nasa:pds:mess-rs-rawDOI: 10.17189/tcy9-gv38

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The MESSENGER Radio Science (RS) experiment consists of radio observations carried out using the MESSENGER spacecraft and Earth-based observing systems of the NASA Deep Space Network (DSN). The observations are designed to generate high-resolution gravity field models of Mercury. Supplementary data are useful for understanding, processing, or interpreting the observational data but are not usually considered to have science value of their own.

MESSENGER Radio Science Supplementary Data Collection:

Type	Description	Collection ID
ANT4	Antenna Configuration file. Text file containing the antenna configuration based on spacecraft telemetry. See section 2.2 of the RS Raw Data Archive SIS for more information.	urn:nasa:pds:mess-rs-raw:calib
ION4	Ionosphere (media) calibration files, providing historical and predicted Earth ionospheric conditions. See section 2.2 of the RS Raw Data Archive SIS for more information.	urn:nasa:pds:mess-rs-raw:calib
LTF4	Light time files providing the radio propagation time from the spacecraft to the Earth and from the Earth to the spacecraft vs. time. See section 2.2 of the RS Raw Data Archive SIS for more information.	urn:nasa:pds:mess-rs-raw:calib
MDM4	Momentum Dump Maneuver file, which contains summary information on each angular momentum dump. See section 2.2 of the RS Raw Data Archive SIS for more information.	urn:nasa:pds:mess-rs-raw:calib
MPD4	Maneuver Performance Data Files, which contain estimates of spacecraft mass and center of mass; moments of inertia; thruster locations, directions, and magnitudes; and propellant flow rate. See section 2.2 of the RS Raw Data Archive SIS for more information.	urn:nasa:pds:mess-rs-raw:calib
SFF4	Small forces files, contain details of each maneuver. See section 2.2 of the RS Raw Data Archive SIS for more information.	urn:nasa:pds:mess-rs-raw:calib
TRO4	Troposphere (media) calibration files, providing historical and predicted Earth troposphere conditions. See section 2.2 of the RS Raw Data Archive SIS for more information.	urn:nasa:pds:mess-rs-raw:calib
WEA4	DSN weather files give weather calibration information for DSN complexes. See section 2.2 of the RS Raw Data Archive SIS for more information.	urn:nasa:pds:mess-rs-raw:calib

More information about the RS Raw data can be found in:

• Access to RS Raw Data Bundle

• RS Raw Data Archive SIS (PDF)

• Additional RS Raw Data Documentation

• Srinivasan, D. K., et al., 2007, The Radio Frequency Subsystem and Radio Science on the MESSENGER Mission, Space Science Reviews, 131, p. 557-571, doi: 10.1007/s11214-007-9270-7.