Media calibration system for deep space missions: preliminary design and technical aspects

A. Graziani, S. Crewell, G. Elgered, P. Jarlemark, U. Löhnert, A. Martellucci, M. Mercolino, T. Rose, J. Schween and P. Tortora University of Bologna, Italy, alberto.graziani@unibo.it 2 University of Cologne, Germany, crewell@meteo.uni-koeln.de Chalmers University, Sweden, gunnar.elgered@chalmers.se 4 SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden, Sweden, per.jarlemark@sp.se 5 University of Cologne, Germany loehnert@meteo.uni-koeln.de 6 European Space Agency, The Netherlands, Antonio.Martellucci@esa.int 7 European Space Agency, Germany, Mattia.Martellucci@esa.int 8 Radiometer Physics GmbH, Germany, rose@radiometer-physics.de 9 University of Cologne, Germany, , jschween@uni-koeln.de 10 University of Bologna, Italy, paolo.tortora@unibo.it

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