MESSENGER RSS Momentum Dump Maneuver Record (MDM4)

MDM4 – PDS4 Momentum Dump Maneuver Record

Instrument: MESSENGER Radio Science Experiment

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

For more information about the RSS MDM4 file, see the MDM File Description.

The Radio Science Subsystem (RSS) Momentum Dump Maneuver Record (MDM4) 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 MDM4 file is to supply information to the navigation and Radio Science teams for use in their trajectory-construction analyses. A new version of the MDM4 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 MDM4 file is named thus MESS_RS_MDM.CSV, with its corresponding label file.

In ODE, the MDM4 file has the following product ID:

mess_rs_mdm