Time transfer between UTC and local vehicle time for the gravity probe B relativity mission

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting - Institute of Navigation

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 560-569

  Li, Jie ^a   Keiser, George M ^a   Lockhart, James M ^a,b   Shestople, Paul ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COORDINATED UNIVERSAL TIME (UTC); GROUND PROCESSING; OVEN-CONTROLLED CRYSTAL OSCILLATOR (OCXO); PULSE-PER-SECOND (PPS);

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; CRYSTAL OSCILLATORS; DATA PROCESSING; GYROSCOPES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

DATA ACQUISITION;

EID: 8344270921     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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