LARES mission operations

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dc.contributor.authorSindoni, Giampiero
dc.contributor.authorPavlis, Erricos C.
dc.date.accessioned2020-10-09T16:47:10Z
dc.date.available2020-10-09T16:47:10Z
dc.date.issued2015-03-07
dc.descriptionIEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings 2015, Big Sky, MT, USA
dc.description.abstractLAser RElativity Satellite (LARES) is an Italian Space Agency mission that started operations on February 2012 after a successful launch on ESA's VEGA qualification flight. The satellite is covered with retroreflectors that allow accurate laser ranging tracking from the stations of the International Laser Ranging Service. Data of laser ranged satellites are publicly available for scientific analysis and in the case of LARES are being used mainly for testing general relativity and in particular the Lense-Thirring effect due to the rotation of Earth. Although designed for fundamental physics, the LARES mission is also very useful for geodesy and geodynamics and it will provide, among other things, improvement of the International Terrestrial Reference Frame. After a description of the scientific objectives and of the satellite, the paper will focus on the operations required to run the mission.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThe authors wish to thank the Italian Space Agency for supporting LARES mission under contracts I/043/08/0, I/043/08/1, I/034/12/0 and I/034/12/1, and the International Laser Ranging Service for tracking the satellite and providing the laser ranging data. Erricos. C. Pavlis acknowledges the support of NASA grant NNX09AU86G.en_US
dc.description.urihttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7119149en_US
dc.format.extent11 pagesen_US
dc.genreconference papers and proceedings preprintsen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/m2uuhh-gkqm
dc.identifier.citationG. Sindoni and E. C. Pavlis, "LARES mission operations," 2015 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT, 2015, pp. 1-10, doi: 10.1109/AERO.2015.7119149.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1109/AERO.2015.7119149
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/19793
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherIEEEen_US
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dc.relation.ispartofUMBC Physics Department
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dc.titleLARES mission operationsen_US
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