Assessment of the solar radiation model for grace orbit determination

Advances in the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 129 PART 1, Issue , 2008, Pages 501-510

  Cheng, Minkang ^a   Ries, John C ^a   Tapley, Byron D ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DRAGS; COMPLEX SURFACES; DIFFUSE REFLECTIVITIES; EARTH RADIATIONS; EARTH'S GRAVITY FIELDS; GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENTS; HIGH-ACCURACY; NEUTRAL DENSITIES; ORBIT DETERMINATIONS; RADIATION PRESSURES; SOLAR RADIATION MODELS; SOLAR RADIATION PRESSURES; SURFACE FORCES; THERMOSPHERIC WINDS; TIME VARIABLES;

ASTROPHYSICS; DRAG; DYNAMICS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; EXTRACTIVE METALLURGY; GRAVITATION; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; PRESSURE; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; SATELLITES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOLAR RADIATION; SUN; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

GEODETIC SATELLITES;

EID: 60449103373     PISSN: 00653438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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