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A prerequisite for the success of future gravity missions like the European Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) is a precise orbit determination (POD). A detailed simulation study has been carried out to assess the achievable orbit accuracy based on satellite-to-satellite tracking (SST) by the US global positioning system (GPS) and in conjunction the implications for gravity field determination. An orbit accuracy at the few centimeter level seems possible, sufficient to support the GOCE gravity mission and in particular its gravity gradiometer.
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Received: 21 January 2000 / Accepted: 4 July 2000
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Visser, P., van den IJssel, J. GPS-based precise orbit determination of the very low Earth-orbiting gravity mission GOCE. Journal of Geodesy 74, 590–602 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s001900000119
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s001900000119