Precise science orbits for the Swarm satellite constellation

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1042-1055

  Van Den Ijssel, Jose ^a   Encarnação, João ^a   Doornbos, Eelco ^a   Visser, Pieter ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

GPS; Ionospheric scintillation; Precise Orbit Determination; Swarm

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); ENGINEERING EDUCATION; GEOMAGNETISM; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; IONOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT; KINEMATICS; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO); SATELLITES; SCINTILLATION;

DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY; EARTH'S MAGNETIC FIELD; IONOSPHERIC SCINTILLATION; PRECISE ORBIT DETERMINATION; PRECISE SCIENCE ORBITS; SATELLITE CONSTELLATIONS; SATELLITE LASER RANGING DATUM; SWARM;

ORBITS;

EID: 84938421998     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: 18791948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2015.06.002     Document Type: Article

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