Cassini navigation during solar conjunctions via removal of solar plasma noise

Advances in the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 114 II, Issue , 2003, Pages 1407-1423

  Tortora, P ^a   Iess, L ^b   Bordi, J J ^c   Ekelund, J E ^c   Roth, D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA QUALITY; SOLAR PLASMA;

DATA REDUCTION; GRAVITATION; MANEUVERABILITY; NAVIGATION; PLASMA THEORY; SPACECRAFT; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; SUN;

SPACE RESEARCH;

EID: 1542754634     PISSN: 00653438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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