Mission design concepts for repeat groundtrack orbits and application to the ICESat mission

The primary objective of the NASA sponsored ICESat mission is to study the short and long term changes in the ice mass in the Greenland and Antarctica regions. The satellite was therefore placed into a frozen near-polar near-circular repeat groundtrack to ensure an adequate coverage of the polar reg...

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Main Author: Pie, Nadege
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2152/6840