ASTROD I: Mission concept and Venus flybys

Acta Astronautica

Volumn 59, Issue 8-11, 2006, Pages 598-607

  Ni, Wei Tou ^a,b,c   Bao, Yun ^d   Dittus, Hansjörg ^e   Huang, Tianyi ^f   Lämmerzahl, Claus ^e   Li, Guangyu ^a,b   Luo, Jun ^g   Ma, Zhen Guo ^b   François Mangin, Jean ^h   Nie, Yu Xin ⁱ   Peters, Achim ^j   Rüdiger, Albrecht ^k   Samain, Étienne ^h   Schiller, Stephan ^l   Shiomi, Sachie ^c   Sumner, Timothy ^m   Tang, Chien Jen ^c   Tao, Jinhe ^a,b   Touboul, Pierre ⁿ   Wang, Haitao ^o   Wicht, Andreas ^l   Wu, Xue Jun ^p   Xiong, Yaoheng ^q   Xu, Chongming ^p   Yan, Jun ^a,b   Yao, Da Zhi ^a,b   Yeh, Hsien Chi ^r   Zhang, Shu Lian ^s   Zhang, Yuan Zhong ^t   Zhou, Ze Bing ^g   more..

^a CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^b CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^f NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^h UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

ⁱ INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^j HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^k ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^l HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^m IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

ⁿ ONERA   (France)

^o Nanjing Institute of Astronomical Optics and Technology   (China)

^p NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^q Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^r NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^s TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^t INSTITUTE OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (China)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER EFFECT; GRAVITY WAVES; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; SATELLITE GROUND STATIONS; SOLAR SYSTEM; SPACE RESEARCH; SPACE TELESCOPES; SPACECRAFT;

ASTRODYNAMICAL SPACE TEST OF RELATIVITY; DOPPLER TRACKING; OPTICAL DOPPLER TRACKING METHOD; SOLAR SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

ASTROPHYSICS;

EID: 33746785188     PISSN: 00945765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2005.07.031     Document Type: Article

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