Two-way laser link over interplanetary distance

Science

Volumn 311, Issue 5757, 2006, Pages 53-

  Smith, David E ^a   Zuber, Maria T ^a,b   Sun, Xiaoli ^a   Neumann, Gregory A ^a,b   Cavanaugh, John F ^a   McGarry, Jan F ^a   Zagwodzki, Thomas W ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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SCIENCE IN GENERAL;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; INSTRUMENT; LASER; MEASUREMENT; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLAR ENERGY; SPACE; SPACE FLIGHT;

EID: 30344454388     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1120091     Document Type: Article

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9. The range is not a true geometric time of flight because both terminals are accelerating, but the round-trip time is adequately constrained in this fashion.
10. We gratefully acknowledge the efforts of the MESSENGER spacecraft team, the MLA instrument team, and the staff of NASA's GGAO. The MESSENGER Project is supported by NASA's Discovery Program.