Measurements of the range to the Beacon Explorer C spacecraft from a single laser tracking system at Goddard Space Flight Center have been used to determine the change in latitude of the station arising from polar motion. A precision of 0.03 arc second was obtained for the latitude during a 5-month period in 1970.
Polar motion from laser tracking of artificial satellites.
Science ; 178
1972-10-27
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English
Polar motion and earth tides from laser tracking
NTRS | 1977
|Motion of Close Artificial Satellites
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