LARES-2 contribution to global geodetic parameters from the combined LAGEOS-LARES solutions

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00190-024-01925-3" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00190-024-01925-3</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00190-024-01925-3" target="_blank" >10.1007/s00190-024-01925-3</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

LARES-2 contribution to global geodetic parameters from the combined LAGEOS-LARES solutions

Original language description

LARES-2 is a new geodetic satellite designed for high-accuracy satellite laser ranging. The orbit altitude of LARES-2 is similar to that of LAGEOS-1, whereas the inclination angle of 70° complements the LAGEOS-1 inclination of 110°; hence, both satellites form the butterfly configuration for the verification of the Lense–Thirring effect. Although the major objective of LARES-2 is testing general relativity, LARES-2 substantially contributes to geodesy in terms of the realization of terrestrial reference frames, recovery of the geocenter motion, pole coordinates, length-of-day, and low-degree gravity field coefficients. We analyze the first 1.5 years of LARES-2 data and test different empirical orbit models for LARES-2 with and without co-estimating low-degree gravity field coefficients to find the best combination strategy with LAGEOS satellites. We found that LARES-2 orbit determination is more accurate than that of LAGEOS-1/2 due to a different satellite construction consisting of a solid sphere with no inner structure. Neither the correction for D0 nor the empirical once-per-revolution along-track accelerations SC/SS have to be estimated for LARES-2 when co-estimating gravity field coefficients. The only empirical parameter needed for LARES-2 is the constant along-track acceleration S0 to compensate for the Yarkovsky–Schach effect. On the contrary, for LAGEOS-1/2, the non-gravitational perturbations affect C30 and Z geocenter estimates when once-per-revolution parameters are not estimated. LARES-2 does not face this issue. LARES-2 improves the formal errors of the Z geocenter component by up to 59% and C20 by up to 40% compared to the combined LAGEOS-1/2 solutions and provides C30 estimates unaffected by thermal orbit modeling issues.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10500 - Earth and related environmental sciences

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Geodesy

ISSN

0949-7714

e-ISSN

1432-1394

Volume of the periodical

99

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

17

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

001376075200001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85211951198