Laser ranges to the Beacon Explorer C spacecraft from a single Goddard Space Flight Center tracking system were used to determine the change in latitude of the station arising from polar motion. A precision of 0.03 arcsecs rms was obtained for the latitude during a five-month period in 1970. (Author)
Polar Motion from Laser Tracking of Artificial Satellites
1972
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Laser Tracking and Communication with Satellites
NTRS | 1968
|Laser tracking and communication with satellites
NTRS | 1968
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