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Abstract

The orientation of the reference frame of radio source catalogs relative to that of planetary ephemerides, or “frame tie,” can be a major systematic error source for interplanetary spacecraft orbit determination. This work presents a method of determining the radio-planetary frame tie from a comparison of very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) and lunar Jaser ranging (LLR) station coordinate and Earth of 25 nrad.

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Volume
42-109
Published
May 15, 1992
Pages
1–21
File Size
1.1 MB