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| Titel |
Terrestrial and Celestial Reference Frame Realization with Highly Elliptical Orbit - The ESA STE-QUEST Mission |
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Drazen Svehla, Markus Rothacher, Urs Hugentobler, Axel Nothnagel, Pascal Willis, Richard Biancale, Marek Ziebart, Graham Appleby, Harald Schuh, Jozsef Adam, Luciano Iess, Luigi Cacciapuoti |
| Konferenz |
EGU General Assembly 2014
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Artikel
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| Sprache |
Englisch
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| Digitales Dokument |
PDF |
| Erschienen |
In: GRA - Volume 16 (2014) |
| Datensatznummer |
250093318
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 EGU/EGU2014-7934.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| The Space-Time Explorer and QUantum Equivalence Principle Space Test (STE-QUEST) is
a Medium Class fundamental physics mission pre-selected for the M3 slot of the ESA
Cosmic Vision Programme to test Einstein’s Equivalence Principle using atom
interferometry and the general and special theory of relativity. Two secondary mission
objectives are related to space geodesy: terrestrial and celestial reference frame of
the Earth and relativistic geodesy aiming at the realization of unified reference
frame for positioning, time, and temporal gravity. The highly elliptical orbit of the
STE-QUEST satellite can be used for terrestrial reference frame realization by means of on
board GNSS, SLR and VLBI radio source (STE-QUEST metrology link tracked by
VLBI antenna - compatible with VLBI2010). By upgrading the on board GNSS
receiver for DORIS tracking, the STE-QUEST mission will be similar to the GRASP
mission proposal from JPL. Due to the highly elliptical orbit of STE-QUEST (apogee |
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