Development of the Gravity Probe B flight mission

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1387-1396

  Turneaure, J P ^a   Everitt, C W F ^a   Parkinson, B W ^a   Bardas, D ^a   Buchman, S ^a   DeBra, D B ^a   Dougherty, H ^b   Gill, D ^a   Grammer, J ^c   Green, G B ^d   Gutt, G M ^a   Gwo, D H ^a   Heifetz, M ^a   Kasdin, N J ^d   Keiser, G M ^a   Lipa, J A ^a   Lockhart, J M ^a,e   Mester, J C ^a   Muhlfelder, Barry ^a   Parmley, R ^c   Silbergleit, A S ^d   Sullivan, M T ^a   Taber, M A ^a   Van Patten, R A ^a   Vassar, R ^c   Wang, S ^a   Xiao, Y M ^a   Zhou, P ^a   more..

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

^c Advanced Technology Cent   (United States)

^d NavAstro   (United States)

^e SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRAG; ERROR ANALYSIS; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; GYROSCOPES; ORBITS; SPACE FLIGHT;

FRAME-DRAGGING PRECESSIONS; GEODETIC PRECESSIONS;

SPACE RESEARCH;

GRAVITY; PRECESSION; SATELLITE;

EID: 9144251598     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0273-1177(03)90351-6     Document Type: Article

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