Orbital predictions for the LARES satellite mission
| dc.contributor.author | Sindoni, G. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Paolozzi, A. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Paris, C. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Ciufolini, I. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-10-09T16:33:40Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-10-09T16:33:40Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015-06-04 | |
| dc.description | 2015 IEEE Metrology for Aerospace (MetroAeroSpace), 4-5 June 2015, Benevento, Italy | |
| dc.description.abstract | 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. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | The authors 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.uri | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7180628 | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 6 pages | en_US |
| dc.genre | conference papers and proceedings preprints | en_US |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.13016/m26bno-wtit | |
| dc.identifier.citation | 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. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1109/MetroAeroSpace.2015.7180628 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11603/19792 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | IEEE | en_US |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Faculty Collection | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Physics Department | |
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| dc.rights | ©2015 IEEE | |
| dc.title | Orbital predictions for the LARES satellite mission | en_US |
| dc.type | Text | en_US |