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Current

Ajisai

ALOS

Apollo11

Apollo14

Apollo15

Beacon-C

CHAMP

COMPASS-M1

Envisat

ERS-2

Etalon-1

Etalon-2

ETS-8

GFO-1

GIOVE-A

GIOVE-B

GLONASS-99

GLONASS-102

GLONASS-109

GPS-35

GPS-36

GRACE-A

GRACE-B

ICESat

Jason-1

Jason-2

LAGEOS-1

LAGEOS-2

Larets

Luna17

Luna21

OICETS

SOHLA

Starlette

Stella

TerraSAR-X

Future

Approved

ANDE

BLITS

GIOVE-A2

GOCE

LRO-LR

NPOESS

PROBA-2

QZS-1

STSAT-2

TanDEM-X

Future w/Retros

AltiKa/SARAL

Astro-G

Cryosat-2

Galileo

GPS-3

HY-2A

IRS-P5

Jason-3

KOMPSAT-5

LAGEOS-3

LARES

Sentinel-3

SWARM

WATER

Other

MicroSCOPE

VCL

Past

ADEOS-1

ADEOS-2

ANDE-RR Active

ANDE-RR Passive

ATEx

Cryosat-1

Diadem-1C

Diadem-1D

ERS-1

GEOS-3

GFZ-1

GLONASS-40

GLONASS-41

GLONASS-44

GLONASS-47

GLONASS-49

GLONASS-50

GLONASS-53

GLONASS-56

GLONASS-57

GLONASS-62

GLONASS-63

GLONASS-65

GLONASS-66

GLONASS-67

GLONASS-68

GLONASS-69

GLONASS-70

GLONASS-71

GLONASS-72

GLONASS-74

GLONASS-75

GLONASS-76

GLONASS-77

GLONASS-78

GLONASS-79

GLONASS-80

GLONASS-81

GLONASS-82

GLONASS-84

GLONASS-86

GLONASS-87

GLONASS-88

GLONASS-89

GLONASS-90

GLONASS-91

GLONASS-92

GLONASS-93

GLONASS-94

GLONASS-96

GLONASS-97

GLONASS-98

GLONASS-95

GLONASS-100

GLONASS-101

GLONASS-103

GLONASS-104

GLONASS-105

GLONASS-106

GLONASS-107

GLONASS-108

Gravity Probe B

LRE

Meteor-2-21/FIZEAU

Meteor-3-6/PRARE

Meteor-3M

Meteosat P2/LASSO

MSTI

OICETS

Reflector

RESURS-01-3

Seasat

STARSHINE

SUNSAT

TiPS

TiPS-Norton

TiPS-Ralph

TOPEX

WESTPAC

Zeya

    com navigation structure General ilrs support retroreflector info center of mass

STSAT-2

STSAT array phase center

The LRA optical reference point (intersection of the optical axes of all 4 prisms within the array) in body-fixed satellite system coordinates:
O is satellite-based origin, and PC the phase center.
Vector L is from the satellite-based origin to the LRA mass center.
Vector PC is from the satellite center of gravity to the phase center of retroreflector array.
L = (-0.34, 381.92, 310.98)mm The plane of the front faces of the cubes is +35.52mm in the Z direction from the LRA mass center.
The cubes' phase centers are -h x n in the Z direction from the plane of the front faces of the cubes.
For the STSAT-2 cubes, h=22.3mm and n=1.464. So the phase centers are -32.65mm in Z direction. So Z-component of array phase center is +2.87mm from LRA mass center. So, defining vector L' as the vector from the satellite-based origin to the phase center of the retroreflector array, we have
L' = (-0.34, 381.92, 313.85)mm Finally, the vector PC from the satellite center of gravity to the phase center of the retroreflector array is PC=L' -C.
So PC = (7.26, 0.52, 311.95)mm in the STSAT-2A and (-0.16, -30.24, 313.82)mm in the STSAT-2B in satellite fixed frame.


 
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