Modelling the anomalous acceleration and radiation pressure forces for the TOPEX/POSEIDON spacecraft

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 359, Issue 1788, 2001, Pages 2191-2208

  Kubitschek, D G ^a   Born, G H ^a  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

Altimetric spacecraft; Anomalous acceleration; Empirical accelerations; Precision orbit determination; Radiation force modelling; TOPEX POSEIDON

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751227041     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2001.0882     Document Type: Article

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