Asteroid Mission HERA is approaching Mars for a Flyby Manoeuvre

ESA's asteroid mission HERA is approaching Mars for a flyby manoeuvre around 12:30 UTC. I want to try to observe the x-band downlink signal and visualize the Doppler profile resulting from this gravitational manoeuvre. I am not quite sure if I will succeed, because Mars is just rising and the faint signal from the spacecraft may remain buried in thermal noise from the ground and trees. All this is taking place around Mars at a distance of 144 million km. I am observing directly with my small amateur deep space station.
Be prepared to just see noise. See more of my deep space related work on https://df2mz.de

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