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Polar motion and earth tides from beacon explorer c
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Dunn, P. J. Kolenkiewicz, D. E. Smith, D. E. |
| Copyright Year | 1973 |
| Description | Seventeen months of laser tracking of the Beacon Explorer C spacecraft by a Goddard Space Flight Center laser system were analyzed. The amplitude and phase of the solid-earth and ocean-tide perturbations of the orbit and the variation in latitude of the tracking station were determined. From an analysis of the orbital inclination obtained from 6 hour data spans the tidal perturbations of the orbit were found to have a magnitude equivalent to a second degree Love number, k sub 2, of 0.245 with a phase lag of about 3.2 degrees. These numbers are in complete agreement with values obtained previously from a much shorter data span, although k sub 2, is lower than the value derived from seismic data. This discrepancy is probably due to the influence of the oceans on the satellite result. After removing the tidal perturbations the residuals in inclination were of order 0.04 arcseconds. This implies that the variation in latitude of the station was being determined during the 17 months period with an rms deviation of about 1.4 meters with respect to the smoothed Bureau International de l'Heure values. |
| File Size | 441052 |
| Page Count | 14 |
| File Format | |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19730022618 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t29930n78 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1973-05-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Geophysics Polar Orbits Explorer Satellites Statistical Analysis Perturbation Inclination Earth Tides Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
