LARES-2 contribution to global geodetic parameters from the combined LAGEOS-LARES solutions

IF 3.9 2区 地球科学 Q1 GEOCHEMISTRY & GEOPHYSICS Journal of Geodesy Pub Date : 2024-12-12 DOI:10.1007/s00190-024-01925-3
K. Sośnica, F. Gałdyn, R. Zajdel, D. Strugarek, J. Najder, A. Nowak, M. Mikoś, T. Kur, J. Bosy, G. Bury
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LARES-2 is a new geodetic satellite designed for high-accuracy satellite laser ranging. The orbit altitude of LARES-2 is similar to that of LAGEOS-1, whereas the inclination angle of 70° complements the LAGEOS-1 inclination of 110°; hence, both satellites form the butterfly configuration for the verification of the Lense–Thirring effect. Although the major objective of LARES-2 is testing general relativity, LARES-2 substantially contributes to geodesy in terms of the realization of terrestrial reference frames, recovery of the geocenter motion, pole coordinates, length-of-day, and low-degree gravity field coefficients. We analyze the first 1.5 years of LARES-2 data and test different empirical orbit models for LARES-2 with and without co-estimating low-degree gravity field coefficients to find the best combination strategy with LAGEOS satellites. We found that LARES-2 orbit determination is more accurate than that of LAGEOS-1/2 due to a different satellite construction consisting of a solid sphere with no inner structure. Neither the correction for D0 nor the empirical once-per-revolution along-track accelerations SC/SS have to be estimated for LARES-2 when co-estimating gravity field coefficients. The only empirical parameter needed for LARES-2 is the constant along-track acceleration S0 to compensate for the Yarkovsky–Schach effect. On the contrary, for LAGEOS-1/2, the non-gravitational perturbations affect C30 and Z geocenter estimates when once-per-revolution parameters are not estimated. LARES-2 does not face this issue. LARES-2 improves the formal errors of the Z geocenter component by up to 59% and C20 by up to 40% compared to the combined LAGEOS-1/2 solutions and provides C30 estimates unaffected by thermal orbit modeling issues.

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Journal of Geodesy
Journal of Geodesy 地学-地球化学与地球物理
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Geodesy is an international journal concerned with the study of scientific problems of geodesy and related interdisciplinary sciences. Peer-reviewed papers are published on theoretical or modeling studies, and on results of experiments and interpretations. Besides original research papers, the journal includes commissioned review papers on topical subjects and special issues arising from chosen scientific symposia or workshops. The journal covers the whole range of geodetic science and reports on theoretical and applied studies in research areas such as: -Positioning -Reference frame -Geodetic networks -Modeling and quality control -Space geodesy -Remote sensing -Gravity fields -Geodynamics
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