Measurements of Satellite Range with a Ruby Laser

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May 1966

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SAO Special Report #211 (1966)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Range measurements on the GEOS I and BE-C satellites were made with an experimental optical radar located at the Smithsonian astrophysical observing station in New Mexico. The radar's transmitter was a pulsed ruby laser. The receiver incorporated a time-interval counter with an accuracy of +/-10 nsec, which gives a resolution of +/-1.5 m. The most distant range measured was 2.6 Mm. The signals returned from the retroreflecting satellites were more than 16 db below the values predicted by the radar-range equation. The measured ranges were compared with values obtained from orbits computed with field-reduced data of the Baker-Nunn observing stations. The measured and computed ranges were consistent to within a few hundreds of meters the error that might be expected in the field-reduced orbits.

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