Lunar satellite orbit determination analysis and quality assessment from Lunar Prospector tracking data and SELENE simulations

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 43-50

  Goossens, Sander ^a   Matsumoto, Koji ^a  

^a NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

Author keywords

Covariance analysis; Gravity field determination; Low lunar satellite orbits; Lunar Prospector; SELENE

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAVITATION; LUNAR MISSIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ORBITS; QUALITY CONTROL;

COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; GRAVITY FIELD MODEL; LUNAR GRAVITY FIELD; ORBIT DETERMINATION; POLAR ORBITS; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; SELENE;

SATELLITES;

EID: 34447338042     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2006.12.008     Document Type: Article

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