A simulation study for anticipated accuracy of lunar gravity field model by SELENE tracking data

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 331-336

  Matsumoto, Koji ^a   Hanada, Hideo ^a   Namiki, Noriyuki ^c   Iwata, Takahiro ^b   Goossens, Sander ^a   Tsuruta, Seiitsu ^a   Kawano, Nobuyuki ^a   Rowlands, David D ^d  

^a NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

4 way Doppler measurement; Differential VLBI; Lunar gravity field recovery; SELENE

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOPPLER EFFECT; LUNAR MISSIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SATELLITES;

4-WAY DOPPLER MEASUREMENTS; DIFFERENTIAL VLBI; LUNAR GRAVITY FIELD RECOVERY; SELENE;

GRAVITATION;

EID: 44449153038     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2007.03.066     Document Type: Article

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