ESA's forthcoming HERA mission to binary asteroid 65803 Didymos will include a radar tomography experiment which will be carried out by the Juventas Radar (JuRa) instrument of Juventas CubeSat. This project aims at validating full-wave inversion approaches for JuRa before HERA will rendezvous Didymos in 2027. Important part of the focus will be on utilization of high performance computing (HPC) resources. Namely, JuRa's relatively high diameter-to-wavelength ratio (DWR) necessitates that a leading supercomputer such as LUMI by EuroHPC Joint Undertaking is applied as the hardware platform. With world renowned experts of JuRa workgroup as collaborators, my research team will be able to run numerical simulations within the right DWR range, to manufacture high-precision analogue objects, and to measure experimental microwave data for those. These aspects will be brought together in an exploratory study in which will provide important information of the feasibility of the JuRa experiment.

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