Energy balance relations for validation of gravity field models and orbit determinations applied to the CHAMP mission

Earth Observation with CHAMP: Results from Three Years in Orbit

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 53-58

  Löcher, Anno ^a   Ilk, Karl Heinz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

CHAMP; Energy balance; Gravity field validation; Jacobi integral; Satellite orbit validation; Satellite to satellite tracking

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955854373     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-26800-6_8     Document Type: Chapter

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