Laser pointing determination system for the geoscience laser altimeter on ICESAT. INitial in-flight performance assessment

Advances in the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 118, Issue , 2004, Pages 607-621

  Sirota, J Marcos ^a   Millar, Pamela S ^b   Field, Christopher T ^a   Mostofi, David K ^a   Ketchum, Eleanor ^b   Carabajal, Claudia ^c   Luthcke, Scott ^b  

^a SIGMA SPACE CORPORATION   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c NVI Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE DETERMINATION SYSTEM (ADS); EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEM (EOS); GEOSCIENCE LASER ALTIMETER SYSTEM (GLAS); STELLAR REFERENCE SYSTEM (SRS);

CALIBRATION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; LASER APPLICATIONS; LASER BEAMS; SATELLITES; SPACE FLIGHT;

ANEROID ALTIMETERS;

EID: 23744442113     PISSN: 00653438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (5)

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3. S. Bae and B.E. Schutz. Laser Pointing Determination Using Stellar Reference System in Geoscience Laser Altimeter System. AAS (00-123) 2000.
4. J. M. Sirota, P. Millar, E. Ketchum, B. Schutz, S. Bae, System to Attain Accurate Pointing Knowledge for the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System, AAS 01-003 2001.
5. S. B. Luthcke, D.D. Rowlands, J. McCarthy, D. E. Pavlis, and E. Stonkening, Spaceborne Laser Altimeter Pointing Bias Calibration from Range Residual Analysis. Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets Vol 37, 374-384,2000.