Investigation of X-band and Ka-band amplitude scintillation based on measurement data collected during ESA’s BepiColombo superior solar conjunction campaign

Abstract Solar phase scintillation and solar amplitude are fundamentally important in deep space mission operations for designing a communication system capable of transmitting signals when the signal path is close to Sun. The ESA’s BepiColombo measurement data were analyzed previous paper terms power spectral density scintillation, also with comparison Woo’s theory, X-band Ka-band propagate Sun small Sun-Earth-Probe (SEP) angle during superior conjunction campaign March 2021 its cruise Mercury. In this both by calculating index. results index, derived from these data, fit NASA JPL’s index model.