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... Here Data Collection = http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/datasetSearch.do?spacecraft=LAGEOS%20II Here Carrier_Rocket = Space Shuttle LAGEOS II (LAser GEOdetic Satellite) was a very dense (high mass-to-area ... conjunction with appropriate laser-tracking systems (about 16 mobile and 10 fixed laser-ranging facilities), LAGEOS II permitted extreme precision ranging measurements for both geometric mode (multilateration) and orbital dynamic mode ...

Image:Lageos.jpg 200px LAGEOS Category:Spacecraft

... a cannonball-shaped satellite that transformed studies of Earth’s shape, rotation and gravity field. LAGEOS – short for Laser Geodynamic Satellite – was the first NASA orbiter dedicated to the precision measurement ... ground stations on different continents simultaneously. Over the years, 183 stations worldwide have ranged to LAGEOS, and dozens still do. A laser pulse is transmitted from a ground station and bounces ...

... study and understanding of the solid earth and its dynamic processes. LaGeos 2 would be identical in configuration to LaGeos 1 and would be placed in an orbit of similar altitude but ... to NASA. NASA would provide existing ground support equipment, hardware, and software remaining from the LaGeos 1 mission, technical consultation, and launch on the Space Shuttle as a payload of opportunity ...

... -km apogee, 5845-km perigee, inclination of 109.8°, and period of 225.5 min. Lageos, resembling a "cosmic golfball" 60 cm in diameter and weighing 411 kg, would act in ... earth's surface as small as 2 cm. The 3-yr phase 1 of the Lageos mission would validate laser-ranging techniques as compared with long-baseline interferometry and lunar laser ... application of phase-1 techniques continuously for the usable life of the passive satellite. Although Lageos was not expected to fallback to earth for at least 8 million yr, and contained ...

... on impact with the water. ''( MSFC Release 73-172)'' Establishment of the Laser Geodynamic Satellite (LAGEOS) Task Team in the Marshall Space Flight Center Program Development Directorate was announced by Dr. Rocco A. Petrone , MSFC Director. LAGEOS, first in a series of satellites for application to earth and ocean dynamics investigations, would ...

Tests on the Lageos-a geophysical research satellite expected to remain in orbit several million years-concluded at Goddard ... reflectors designed to return laser pulses to their exact point of origin on the earth, Lageos would provide a stable point in the sky to permit measurement of the relative locations ... scientists with models of earth's crustal motion, useful in predicting earthquakes. Manager of the Lageos project would be the Marshall Space Flight Center at Huntsville, Ala. ( MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER ...

... , 12/5/73)'' NASA announced plans for a 1976 launch of a Laser Geodynamic Satellite (LAGEOS) . The satellite would provide information for mathematical models on the earth's movements and strains ... the spacecraft would be accurate within 2 cm (0.75 in) of actual earth movement. LAGEOS would be a solid sphere weighing about 380 kg (835 lbs) and measuring 0.6 ...

... Design Review by officials of NASA and the Smithsonian Institution, at Marshall Space Flight Center . LAGEOS, to be launched in 1976, would provide information on earthquake-producing motions and strain in ...

... for its missions. NASA selected 24 scientists to use data from the laser geodynamics satellite Lageos launched May 4, 1976. Having completed an initial phase of settling into orbit and checking ... rotation. The investigators would become part of a working group chaired by Dr. David Smith, Lageos project scientist and were to meet August 29 and 30 at GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER ...

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