Larets
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Mission Photos:
Courtesy of IPIE
Mission Objectives:
Larets is designed to address scientific and applied problems in the interests of geodesy and geodynamics. The LARETS mission is a next stage in low-target-error laser satellite design optimization, started with the WESTPAC mission. SLR tracking is the single data source for orbit determination
Mission Instrumentation:
Larets has the following instrumentation onboard:
- 60 prism corner cube retroreflectors
Mission Parameters:
| Sponsor: | Russia |
| Coordinator | IPIE |
| Expected Life: | 6 Months |
| Primary Applications: | |
| Primary SLR Applications: | |
| COSPAR ID: | 0304206 |
| SIC Code: | 5557 |
| Satellite Catalog (NORAD) Number: | 27944 |
| Launch Date: | September 27 2003 |
| Satellite Diameter: | 24 cm |
| Orbit: | |
| Inclination: | 98.204 |
| Eccentricity: | 0.0002 |
| Altitude | 691 km |
| Weight: | 23.28 kg |
Additional information:
Publications:
- Pearlman, M., Arnold, D., Davis, M., et al. (2019), "Laser geodetic satellites: a high-accuracy scientific tool", J. Geodesy, 93(11), pp. 2181-2194, DOI: 10.1007/s00190-019-01228-y
- Bloßfeld, M., Rudenko, S., Kehm, A. et al. (2018), "Consistent estimation of geodetic parameters from SLR satellite constellation measurements", J. Geodesy, 92(9), pp. 1003-1021, DOI: 10.1007/s00190-018-1166-7
- Sosnica, K., Jäggi, A., Meyer, U. et al. (2015), "Time variable Earth's gravity field from SLR satellites", J. Geodesy, 89(10), pp. 945-960, DOI: 10.1007/s00190-015-0825-1
- Kucharski, D., Lim, H.C., Kirchner, G. and F. Koidl (2013), "Spin parameters of Low Earth Orbiting satellites Larets and Stella determined from Satellite Laser Ranging data", Adv. Space Res., 53(1), pp. 90-96, DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2013.10.020
- Burmistrov, V.B., Parkhomenko, N.N., Shargorodsky, V.D. and V.P. Vasiliev (2004), "REFLECTOR, LARETS and METEOR-3M(1) what did we learn from tracking campaign results", Proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Laser Ranging, San Fernando, Spain, June 7-11, 2004, https://cddis.nasa.gov/lw14/docs/papers/tar3a_vbm.pdf
