Mesure du Bilan Radiatif de la Terre À L'aide D'un ACCÉLÉROMÈTRE Ultra-Sensible - Project Biramis
Abstract
Results obtained with the Cactus ultrasensitive accelerometer aboard the Castor satellite showed that it was possible to measure, with good precision, acceleration due to solar and terrestrial radiation pressures. Results with Cactus indicate that accelerometer measurements can be used to study the earth radiation budget: if an accelerometer is placed aboard a spherical satellite with a skin whose thermooptical properties are not wavelength-dependent, the accelerometer-satellite system behaves like a wide-field radiometer. The BIRAMIS project is now underway in order to determine the optimal characteristics of such a system.
- Publication:
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Evolution of Planetary Atmospheres and Climatology of the Earth
- Pub Date:
- 1979
- Bibcode:
- 1979epac.conf..553M
- Keywords:
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- Accelerometers;
- Earth Radiation Budget;
- Energy Budgets;
- Radiation Measurement;
- Satellite-Borne Instruments;
- Solar Radiation;
- Terrestrial Radiation;
- Infrared Radiation;
- Optical Properties;
- Precession;
- Radiation Pressure;
- Radiation Spectra;
- Radiometers;
- Thermodynamic Properties;
- Spacecraft Instrumentation