Design considerations for a dedicated gravity recovery satellite mission consisting of two pairs of satellites

Journal of Geodesy

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 81-98

  Wiese, D N ^a   Nerem, R S ^a   Lemoine, F G ^b  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Constellations; GRACE; Satellite geodesy; Temporal aliasing errors; Time variable gravity

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; BOTTOM PRESSURE; ERROR ANALYSIS; GEODESY; GRACE; OPTIMIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIME DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84856212525     PISSN: 09497714     EISSN: 14321394     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00190-011-0493-8     Document Type: Article

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