Precise accelerometry onboard the GRACE gravity field satellite mission

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1414-1423

  Flury, Jakob ^a   Bettadpur, Srinivas ^a   Tapley, Byron D ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerometer; GRACE; Gravity; Non gravitational forces

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; EARTH (PLANET); GRAVITATION; ORBITS;

CAPACITIVE ACCELEROMETERS; ELECTRICAL CURRENT; GRACE; GRAVITY FIELD RECOVERY; LOW EARTH ORBITERS; NON-GRAVITATIONAL FORCE; PRELIMINARY MODEL; SWITCHING ACTIVITIES;

GEODETIC SATELLITES;

EID: 49849100800     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2008.05.004     Document Type: Article

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