Upgrade of an Astronomical Telescope for Satellite Laser Ranging Up to Geostationary Targets

Autor: Philipp Keller, Miroslav Taubenberger, Peiyuan Wang, Georg Kirchner, Franz Koidl, Egon Döberl, Martin Ploner, Erich Leitgeb, Michael Steindorfer
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: 2018 International Conference on Broadband Communications for Next Generation Networks and Multimedia Applications (CoBCom).
DOI: 10.1109/cobcom.2018.8443990
Popis: Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR) is a well-established, mature technique for precise orbit determination (POD). Its overall performance however significantly relies not only on the specific hard- and software equipment of the respective SLR stations - which is relatively expensive -, but also on their global distribution. Upgrading already existing astronomical telescopes with a low-energy laser (e.g, 15 μJ / 2 kHz / 532 nm), plus single-photon detector plus a suitable event timer - all relatively low cost units - creates new SLR systems, which allows laser ranging from Low Earth Orbits (LEO) up to Geosynchronous Orbit (GSO) targets.
Databáze: OpenAIRE