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ILRS Working Group Report: Mission Support Requests and Recommendations

Get insights into ILRS mission support requests and recommendations, including detailed descriptions of specific missions like GOCE and JASON-2. Discover the collaborations and decisions made during MWG meetings for tracking campaigns.

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ILRS Working Group Report: Mission Support Requests and Recommendations

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  1. Missions Working Groupreport to ILRS General Assembly GOCE, ESA Friday October 17th 2008 Poznan, Poland Graham Appleby and Peter Shelus

  2. Mission support requests • Mission sponsors fill in the ILRS web-based request forms • A general mission description, need for SLR, etc.; • detailed description of the LRA • MWG then comments via email • Solicits further comments from the other WGs (Analysis, Networks, Formats); • this stage to be strengthened • Final recommendation to GB

  3. Missions ‘processed’ 2007/08 • JASON-2 – altimetry, time-transfer; 1500km • PROBA-2 – solar obs, GPS cal/val; 720km • GOCE – gravity field; 289km • QZS-1 – GNSS; GEO, i=45º • SOHLA-1 – GPS cal/val, tech demo; 670km • LRO – Lunar exploration, 50km Lunar orbit • COMPASS-M1 – GNSS • OICETS, second campaign, optical nav and coms

  4. OICETS • MWG tasked to request ILRS support for new tracking campaign Oct 2008 to Mar 2009 – made positive recommendation; • There are some time-slots when mission does not want laser tracking: • Laser communication experiment; • Details being worked out before full approval

  5. MWG meetings • Grasse, 2007; • Poznan, 2008. • At Poznan meeting, agreed: • Missions seeking support must make clear from the outset whether there will be restrictions to tracking; • To recommend to DFPWG that all stations be required to invoke a go/no-go flag-reading capability • To work with AWG to recommend stations track the ETALONS more frequently

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