International project Phobos. Experiment ``celestial mechanics''
Abstract
This paper describes the navigation aspects of the Phobos spacecraft mission. The main scientific results in a field of celestial mechanics are given. They are: a new theory of the Martian moon's motion and the determination of Phobos' gravitational constant with high precision.
- Publication:
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Planetary and Space Science
- Pub Date:
- February 1991
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0032-0633(91)90156-5
- Bibcode:
- 1991P&SS...39..349K
- Keywords:
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- Celestial Mechanics;
- Mars Probes;
- Phobos;
- Soviet Spacecraft;
- Gravitational Constant;
- Orbit Calculation;
- Planetary Orbits;
- Viking Mars Program;
- Astrodynamics