Orbit determination for the GOCE satellite

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 760-768

  Visser, P N A M ^a   van den IJssel, J ^a   Van Helleputte, T ^a   Bock, H ^b   Jaggi A ^b   Beutler, G ^b   Svehla D ^c   Hugentobler, U ^c   Heinze, M ^c  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

GOCE; High Level Processing Facility (HPF); Precise Orbit Determination (POD); Precise Science Orbits (PSO); Rapid Science Orbits (RSO)

Indexed keywords

CHAINS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; ORBITS;

GOCE; HIGH-LEVEL PROCESSING FACILITIES; PRECISE ORBIT DETERMINATION; PRECISE SCIENCE ORBITS; RAPID SCIENCE ORBITS;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

EID: 59749084210     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2008.09.016     Document Type: Article

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