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Techniques for the analysis of geodynamic effects using laser data
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Dunn, P. J. Kolenkiewicz, R. Smith, D. E. |
| Copyright Year | 1973 |
| Description | New orbit computation techniques have been developed to realize the full precision of laser ranging measurements from a single tracking station used to accurately determine the orbital inclination of a satellite. In order to evaluate earth and ocean tidal effects on the satellite and polar motion effects on the station latitude, improved computational techniques are described for perturbations significantly influencing the satellite's inclination, such as solar radiation pressure and geopotential resonance. By using the time independent value of maximum latitude reached by the satellite as the experimental variable, orbit tracking errors caused by imprecise modelling of the gravity field and atmospheric drag have been largely overcome and made possible long term analysis of osculating elements. With these techniques, quarter day spans of laser data have been employed to monitor the inclination of the satellite to the order 0.01 arcseconds precision over a period of seventeen months. |
| File Size | 374851 |
| Page Count | 14 |
| File Format | |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19730023007 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t6b32n21k |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1973-05-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Space Sciences Laser Ranger/tracker Satellite Orbits Geodetic Coordinates Latitude Measurement Tides Geopotential Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
