Citation
Abstract
The tropospheric refraction algorithm used in the Mariner Mars 1971 tracking data reductions—the orbit determination effort: (1) it differs from previous models used in support of past missions, and (2) it performs two times better than the stated mission requirement. Although single-pass reductions of doppler tracking data are extremely influenced by tropospheric refraction models, fits to doppler acquired over large time periods, weeks or months, are influenced only slightly: in that, the tropospheric refraction corruption of the doppler observables simply is left in the after-the-fit observed minus computed residuals.
Details
- Volume
- VII
- Published
- February 15, 1972
- Pages
- 68–73
- File Size
- 426.0 KB