Orbital predictions for the LARES satellite mission

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2015-06-04

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G. Sindoni, A. Paolozzi, C. Paris, E. C. Pavlis and I. Ciufolini, "Orbital predictions for the LARES satellite mission: The International Space Time Analysis Research Center (ISTARC)," 2015 IEEE Metrology for Aerospace (MetroAeroSpace), Benevento, 2015, pp. 66-70, doi: 10.1109/MetroAeroSpace.2015.7180628.

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LARES is an Italian Space Agency satellite specifically designed, built and launched to test general relativity. It is a passive satellite covered with Cube Corner Reflectors that reflect laser pulses from tracking stations, thus allowing accurate measurement of the distance. That in turn enables accurate orbit reconstruction that is a key ingredient to allow the measurement of the tiny Lense-Thirring effect predicted by general relativity. The International Space Time Analysis Research Center provides the International Laser Ranging Service-ILRS, the orbital predictions for LARES for pointing of the tracking telescopes toward the target. The paper describes the technical aspects of generating the orbital predictions.