Abstract:Since 1976 when the LAGEOS I satellite was launched, the evolution of thermal re-emission effects has been observed and modeled. The effect of sun and earth heating has been analyzed separately and thermal models have been able, almost completely, to explain most of the residuals observed. However, after more than fifteen years of reasonable agreement between theory and observations, unexpected peaks in the along-track perturbations appeared and brought new attention to the problem of thermal force modeling. T… Show more
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