ISA accelerometer onboard the Mercury Planetary Orbiter: Error budget

Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 165-187

  Iafolla, Valerio ^a   Lucchesi, David M ^a,b   Nozzoli, Sergio ^a   Santoli, Francesco ^a  

^a INAF   (Italy)

^b ISTI CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Accelerometers; Artificial satellites; General relativity; Gravimetry; Mercury; Perturbations; Solar system

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847288311     PISSN: 09232958     EISSN: 15729478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10569-006-9059-0     Document Type: Article

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