Measurement of the lidar cross sections of cube corner arrays for laser ranging of satellites
Abstract
The satellite coordinate system necessary to describe the location and orientation of each cube corner in the array is discussed. The method of optical testing is described along with the gain function, and computational methods for deriving the gain function and experimental values for it. The velocity aberration is derived as a function of satellite orbit, a complete method for cross section evaluation is described, and finally the radar equation is described.
- Publication:
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NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N
- Pub Date:
- September 1974
- Bibcode:
- 1974STIN...7520707M
- Keywords:
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- Artificial Satellites;
- Laser Range Finders;
- Optical Radar;
- Amplification;
- Antenna Arrays;
- Radar Cross Sections;
- Lasers and Masers