Neutral density and crosswind determination from arbitrarily oriented multiaxis accelerometers on satellites

Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 580-589

  Doornbos, Eelco ^a,d   Van Den IJssel, Jose ^a,d   Lühr, Hermann ^b,e   Förster, Matthias ^b,e   Koppenwallner, Georg ^c  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^c HTG Hypersonic Technology Gottingen   (Germany)

^d Faculty ot Aerospace Engineering   (Netherlands)

^e Department 23: Earth's Magnetic Field ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; CALIBRATION; INSTRUMENT ERRORS; IONOSPHERE; SATELLITES; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

ACCELEROMETER MEASUREMENT; CHALLENGING MINISATELLITE PAYLOADS; DENSITY ERRORS; INSTRUMENT CALIBRATIONS; ITERATIVE ALGORITHM; NEUTRAL DENSITIES; RADIATION PRESSURE; WIND RETRIEVALS;

ITERATIVE METHODS;

EID: 77953111489     PISSN: 00224650     EISSN: 15336794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.48114     Document Type: Article

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