The precise calculation of GRACE and GRACE-FO satellite orbits is reliant on knowledge of accurate non-gravitational accelerations acting on the spacecraft. These are measured by …
J Zhang, W You, B Yu, D Fan - GPS Solutions, 2023 - Springer
As a crucial payload on dedicated gravity satellites, the accelerometer (ACC) measures the non-gravitational force acting on the satellite. The unknown scale and bias contaminate the …
The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) mission has provided global observations of temporal variations in the gravity field resulting from mass redistribution at …
B Yu, W You, J Kusche, D Fan, Y Su… - Geophysical Journal …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
In this study, we analysed the impacts of errors in background force models and observed non-gravitational forces on the pseudo-observations (pre-fits) during gravity field recovery …
Thermosphere mass density and crosswind can be derived from accelerometer and GNSS tracking data. However, present datasets are often provided without comprehensive …
F Wöske, M Huckfeldt, B Rievers - Advances in Space Research, 2024 - Elsevier
The density of the upper atmosphere can be determined by orbit and accelerometer data from low Earth orbit satellites as insitu measurements along the orbit. One main challenge …
Cold Atom Interferometry accelerometers and gradiometers have emerged as promising candidates for future gravimetric satellite missions due to their potential for detecting …