Science Requirements on Future Missions and Simulated Mission Scenarios

The science requirements on future gravity satellite missions, following from the previous contributions of this issue, are summarized and visualized in terms of spatial scales, temporal behaviour and accuracy. This summary serves the identification of four classes of future satellite mission of pot...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Earth, moon, and planets moon, and planets, 2004-04, Vol.94 (1-2), p.113-142
Main Authors: Sneeuw, Nico, Flury, Jakob, Rummel, Reiner
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
High altitude
Magnetic measurement
Satellite tracking
Satellite-to-satellite tracking
Satellites
Science
Simulation
Space exploration
Space missions
Citations: Items that this one cites
Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:The science requirements on future gravity satellite missions, following from the previous contributions of this issue, are summarized and visualized in terms of spatial scales, temporal behaviour and accuracy. This summary serves the identification of four classes of future satellite mission of potential interest: high-altitude monitoring, satellite-to-satellite tracking, gradiometry, and formation flights. Within each class several variants are defined. The gravity recovery performance of each of these ideal missions is simulated. Despite some simplifying assumptions, these error simulations result in guidelines as to which type of mission fulfils which requirements best.
ISSN:0167-9295
1573-0794
DOI:10.1007/s11038-004-7605-x