Satellite-satellite laser links for future gravity missions

Space Science Reviews

Volumn 108, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 377-384

  Bender, P L ^a   Hall, J L ^a   Ye, J ^a   Klipstein, W M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

IODINE;

ACCELEROMETER; ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ASTRONOMY; CONFERENCE PAPER; FREQUENCY MODULATION; GRAVITY; LASER; LATITUDE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NEODYMIUM LASER; RELIABILITY; SPACE; SPACE FLIGHT; SPECTRUM; TEMPERATURE; TIME;

EID: 0242301073     PISSN: 00386308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026195913558     Document Type: Conference Paper

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