Publication Date:
2005-11-30
Description:
The use of the earth-moon system for radio tracking has several potentially useful aspects, from a scientific standpoint: extension of the baseline by two orders of magnitude, absence of lunar atmosphere, higher-velocity parallax with a longer period, and the moon's more modellable rotation. The facility would be a convenient base station for other research, not directly involving the tracking capability, but utilizing its orbiting data link features.
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COMMUNICATIONS
Type:
Proc. of the Conf. on Exptl. Tests of Gravitation Theories; p 249-251
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