In this article, we describe a new satellite laser ranging capability which is a joint effort between the Naval Research Laboratory and Air Force Optical Tracking Facility at Malabar, Florida. Initial measurements off LAGEOS indicate that uncorrected radial range rms values of 8 mm are readily achievable. The number of photoelectron counts are on the order of 180 which are off by an order of magnitude from predicted values.


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    Title :

    Ground based laser ranging for satellite location


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    Publication date :

    1993-06-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


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    Language :

    English




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