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Simulation of free fall and resonances in the GOCE mission
- 1.0333664 - ASÚ 2010 RIV GB eng J - Journal Article
Bezděk, Aleš - Klokočník, Jaroslav - Kostelecký, J. - Floberghagen, R. - Gruber, Christian
Simulation of free fall and resonances in the GOCE mission.
Journal of Geodynamics. Roč. 48, č. 1 (2009), s. 47-53. ISSN 0264-3707
Grant - others:ESA(XE) ESA-PECS project No. C98056
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z10030501
Keywords : GOCE * orbital propagator * orbital resonance
Subject RIV: BN - Astronomy, Celestial Mechanics, Astrophysics
Impact factor: 1.812, year: 2009
Using the full-scale numerical propagator, we investigated the satellite’s free fall from the initial injection altitude of 280 km down to the first measurement phase altitude (at 264 km). Then we studied suitable repeat cycles (resonant orbits) for measurement operational phases in the vicinity of 16:1 resonance; we found that they differ greatly in stability towards small perturbations of the satellite’s mean altitude and in temporal evolution of the groundtrack coverage.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0178603
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