scholarly journals 100 kHz satellite laser ranging demonstration at Matera Laser Ranging Observatory

2021 ◽  
Vol 95 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniele Dequal ◽  
Costantino Agnesi ◽  
David Sarrocco ◽  
Luca Calderaro ◽  
Luigi Santamaria Amato ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Repetition Rate ◽  
Attitude Determination ◽  
Terrestrial Reference Frame ◽  
High Repetition Rate ◽  
Low Earth Orbit ◽  
Satellite Laser Ranging ◽  
Laser Ranging ◽  
Single Shot ◽  
Time Jitter ◽  
Main Instrument

AbstractThe new challenges related to the monitoring of Earth’s shape and motion have led the global geodetic observing system to set more stringent requirements on the precision and stability of the terrestrial reference frame (TRF). The achievement of this ambitious goal depends on the improvement of space geodesy techniques, satellite laser ranging (SLR) in particular, being the main instrument for TRF realization. In this work, we study the potential of very high repetition rate SLR by performing a data acquisition campaign with an Ekspla “Atlantic 60” 100 kHz repetition rate laser at the Matera Laser Ranging Observatory (MLRO). This system constitutes an increase of two orders of magnitude in repetition rate with respect to the current SLR stations, while maintaining a good single-shot timing performance. The system has been active for 4 consecutive nights, consistently tracking several low Earth orbit satellites as well as LAGEOS 1 and 2. The results have shown a single-shot time jitter close to other stations, but with unprecedented statistics for $$\approx 10$$ ≈ 10 ps single-shot precision. The analysis of the residuals of LAGEOS satellites allowed us to identify multiple peaks, due to the retroflection from different corner cubes. This opens up the possibility of attitude determination of retroreflector arrays, as well as a new method for spin rate measurement.

scholarly journals Key technologies implementation of high-repetition-rate satellite laser ranging

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wang Peiyuan ◽  
Guo Tangyong ◽  
Gao Hao ◽  
Li Xin ◽  
Zhu Wei ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Repetition Rate ◽  
High Repetition Rate ◽  
Satellite Laser Ranging ◽  
Laser Ranging ◽  
High Repetition ◽  
Key Technologies

Interference and avoidance of atmospheric backscattering on satellite laser ranging with high repetition rate

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 206002
Author(s):  
吴志波 Wu Zhibo ◽  
邓华荣 Deng Huarong ◽  
张海峰 Zhang Haifeng ◽  
汤 凯 Tang Kai ◽  
张忠萍 Zhang Zhongping
Keyword(s):  
Repetition Rate ◽  
High Repetition Rate ◽  
Satellite Laser Ranging ◽  
Laser Ranging ◽  
High Repetition

scholarly journals Design and Development of High-Repetition-Rate Satellite Laser Ranging System

2015 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 209-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eun-Jung Choi ◽  
Seong-Cheol Bang ◽  
Ki-Pyoung Sung ◽  
Hyung-Chul Lim ◽  
Chan-Gyu Jung ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Repetition Rate ◽  
High Repetition Rate ◽  
Satellite Laser Ranging ◽  
Laser Ranging ◽  
Design And Development ◽  
High Repetition

scholarly journals Development of Operation Software for High Repetition rate Satellite Laser Ranging

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (12) ◽  
pp. 1103-1111
Author(s):  
Ki-Pyoung Sung ◽  
Eun-Jung Choi ◽  
Hyung-Chul Lim ◽  
Chan-Gyu Jung ◽  
In-Yeong Kim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Repetition Rate ◽  
High Repetition Rate ◽  
Satellite Laser Ranging ◽  
Laser Ranging ◽  
High Repetition

Interference and avoidance of atmospheric backscattering on satellite laser ranging with high repetition rate

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 206002
Author(s):  
吴志波 Wu Zhibo ◽  
邓华荣 Deng Huarong ◽  
张海峰 Zhang Haifeng ◽  
汤 凯 Tang Kai ◽  
张忠萍 Zhang Zhongping
Keyword(s):  
Repetition Rate ◽  
High Repetition Rate ◽  
Satellite Laser Ranging ◽  
Laser Ranging ◽  
High Repetition

scholarly journals Satellite Laser Ranging for Retrieval of the Local Values of the Love h2 and Shida l2 Numbers for the Australian ILRS Stations

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (23) ◽  
pp. 6851
Author(s):  
Marcin Jagoda ◽  
Miłosława Rutkowska ◽  
Paweł Lejba ◽  
Jacek Katzer ◽  
Romuald Obuchovski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Terrestrial Reference Frame ◽  
Low Earth Orbit ◽  
Satellite Laser Ranging ◽  
Laser Ranging ◽  
Earth Orbit ◽  
Time Interval ◽  
Formal Error ◽  
Station Coordinates ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Research Stage

This paper deals with the analysis of local Love and Shida numbers (parameters h2 and l2) values of the Australian Yarragadee and Mount Stromlo satellite laser ranging (SLR) stations. The research was conducted based on data from the Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) satellites, LAGEOS-1 and LAGEOS-2, and Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites, STELLA and STARLETTE. Data from a 60-month time interval, from 01.01.2014 to 01.01.2019, was used. In the first research stage, the Love and Shida numbers values were determined separately from observations of each satellite; the obtained values of h2, l2 exhibit a high degree of compliance, and the differences do not exceed formal error values. At this stage, we found that it was not possible to determine l2 from the data of STELLA and STARLETTE. In the second research stage, we combined the satellite observations of MEO (LAGEOS-1+LAGEOS-2) and LEO (STELLA+STARLETTE) and redefined the h2, l2 parameters. The final values were adopted, and further analyses were made based on the values obtained from the combined observations. For the Yarragadee station, local h2 = 0.5756 ± 0.0005 and l2 = 0.0751 ± 0.0002 values were obtained from LAGEOS-1 + LAGEOS-2 and h2 = 0.5742 ± 0.0015 were obtained from STELLA+STARLETTE data. For the Mount Stromlo station, we obtained the local h2 = 0.5601 ± 0.0006 and l2 = 0.0637 ± 0.0003 values from LAGEOS-1+LAGEOS-2 and h2 = 0.5618 ± 0.0017 from STELLA + STARLETTE. We found discrepancies between the local parameters determined for the Yarragadee and Mount Stromlo stations and the commonly used values of the h2, l2 parameters averaged for the whole Earth (so-called global nominal parameters). The sequential equalization method was used for the analysis, which allowed to determine the minimum time interval necessary to obtain stable h2, l2 values. It turned out to be about 50 months. Additionally, we investigated the impact of the use of local values of the Love/Shida numbers on the determination of the Yarragadee and Mount Stromlo station coordinates. We proposed to determine the stations (X, Y, Z) coordinates in International Terrestrial Reference Frame 2014 (ITRF2014) in two computational versions: using global nominal h2, l2 values and local h2, l2 values calculated during this research. We found that the use of the local values of the h2, l2 parameters in the process of determining the stations coordinates influences the result.

Laser ranging system and measurement analysis for space debris with high repetition rate

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhibo Wu ◽  
Haifeng Zhang ◽  
Wendong Meng ◽  
Pu Li ◽  
Huarong Deng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Repetition Rate ◽  
Space Debris ◽  
High Repetition Rate ◽  
Laser Ranging ◽  
High Repetition ◽  
Measurement Analysis

scholarly journals Satellite laser ranging at 100 kHz pulse repetition rate

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 363-370 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Hampf ◽  
Ewan Schafer ◽  
Fabian Sproll ◽  
Toshimichi Otsubo ◽  
Paul Wagner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Repetition Rate ◽  
Pulse Repetition Rate ◽  
Satellite Laser Ranging ◽  
Pulse Repetition ◽  
Laser Ranging

scholarly journals Drift of the Earth’s Principal Axes of Inertia from GRACE and Satellite Laser Ranging Data

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 314
Author(s):  
José M. Ferrándiz ◽  
Sadegh Modiri ◽  
Santiago Belda ◽  
Mikhail Barkin ◽  
Mathis Bloßfeld ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Reference Frame ◽  
Terrestrial Reference Frame ◽  
Satellite Laser Ranging ◽  
Laser Ranging ◽  
Navigation Systems ◽  
Time Varying ◽  
Stationary Case ◽  
Principal Axes ◽  
Initial Location ◽  
Gravity Recovery

The location of the Earth’s principal axes of inertia is a foundation for all the theories and solutions of its rotation, and thus has a broad effect on many fields, including astronomy, geodesy, and satellite-based positioning and navigation systems. That location is determined by the second-degree Stokes coefficients of the geopotential. Accurate solutions for those coefficients were limited to the stationary case for many years, but the situation improved with the accomplishment of Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE), and nowadays several solutions for the time-varying geopotential have been derived based on gravity and satellite laser ranging data, with time resolutions reaching one month or one week. Although those solutions are already accurate enough to compute the evolution of the Earth’s axes of inertia along more than a decade, such an analysis has never been performed. In this paper, we present the first analysis of this problem, taking advantage of previous analytical derivations to simplify the computations and the estimation of the uncertainty of solutions. The results are rather striking, since the axes of inertia do not move around some mean position fixed to a given terrestrial reference frame in this period, but drift away from their initial location in a slow but clear and not negligible manner.

Asynchronous single-shot characterization of high-repetition-rate ultrafast waveforms using a time-lens-based temporal magnifier

2012 ◽  
Vol 37 (23) ◽  
pp. 4892 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoshitomo Okawachi ◽  
Reza Salem ◽  
Adrea R. Johnson ◽  
Kasturi Saha ◽  
Jacob S. Levy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Repetition Rate ◽  
High Repetition Rate ◽  
Single Shot ◽  
High Repetition
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