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Scientific analysis of satellite ranging data
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Smith, David E. |
| Copyright Year | 1994 |
| Description | A network of satellite laser ranging (SLR) tracking systems with continuously improving accuracies is challenging the modelling capabilities of analysts worldwide. Various data analysis techniques have yielded many advances in the development of orbit, instrument and Earth models. The direct measurement of the distance to the satellite provided by the laser ranges has given us a simple metric which links the results obtained by diverse approaches. Different groups have used SLR data, often in combination with observations from other space geodetic techniques, to improve models of the static geopotential, the solid Earth, ocean tides, and atmospheric drag models for low Earth satellites. Radiation pressure models and other non-conservative forces for satellite orbits above the atmosphere have been developed to exploit the full accuracy of the latest SLR instruments. SLR is the baseline tracking system for the altimeter missions TOPEX/Poseidon, and ERS-1 and will play an important role in providing the reference frame for locating the geocentric position of the ocean surface, in providing an unchanging range standard for altimeter calibration, and for improving the geoid models to separate gravitational from ocean circulation signals seen in the sea surface. However, even with the many improvements in the models used to support the orbital analysis of laser observations, there remain systematic effects which limit the full exploitation of SLR accuracy today. |
| File Size | 718657 |
| Page Count | 12 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19950007861 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t1qg3n228 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1994-11-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Earth Resources And Remote Sensing Position Location Satellite Orbits Calibrating Satellite Instruments Geodesy Altimeters Ocean Surface Geoids Radiation Pressure Poseidon Satellite Gravitational Effects Drag Geopotential Satellite Tracking Earth Tides Topex Ocean Currents Laser Range Finders Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
