Photon Pressure Force on Space Debris TOPEX/Poseidon Measured by Satellite Laser Ranging

Ranging performance of satellite laser altimeters

Topographic mapping of the earth, moon and planets can be accomplished with high resolution and accuracy using satellite laser altimeters. These systems employ nanosecond laser pulses and microradian beam divergences to achieve submeter vertical range resolution from orbital altitudes of several hundred kilometers. In this paper we develop detailed expressions for the range and pulse width meas...

Local Geodesy by Satellite Laser Ranging: a European Solution

Errors in the modelling the satellite orbit have so far limited the accuracy in the processing of Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR) data. A new method is proposed to achieve a residual size consistent with the observational errors, and a stability of the geode-tic network coordinates at the same level. The orbit of the geodetic satellite LAGEOS is decomposed into very short arcs (less than half orb...

Satellite Laser Ranging and General Relativity

Satellite Laser Ranging and General Relativity

GNSS Satellite Orbit Validation Using Satellite Laser Ranging

With a total of four new regional and global navigation satellite systems that have launched first satellites or even started an operational service, the GNSS landscape has experienced major changes in recent years. As part of the Multi-GNSS Experiment (MGEX) of the International GNSS Service (IGS), a global network of multi-GNSS monitoring stations has been established and various analysis cen...