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Next Generation Gravity Missions: Studying the Possibilities of Multiple Constellations

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The work considers the potential capabilities of space constellations consisting of two pairs of spacecraft moving in different orbits, the so-called next-generation gravity missions (NGGMs), to increase the spatial-temporal measuring capability and improve the accuracy of the Earth’s gravity field recovery. As a result of numerical simulation of the orbital spacecraft motion of a multiple constellation and solving the inverse problem of the Earth’s gravity field recovery from model measurements performed in this constellation, a multiple configuration with orbital parameters h = 370 km, and i = 90.5°, h = 370 km, i = 70.0° is found, which makes it possible to increase both the spatial-temporal resolution of models of the Earth’s gravity field with a significant refinement of zonal, sectorial and tesseral harmonics compared to a single-pair near-polar constellation.

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The work was carried out with the financial support from the Russian Science Foundation Grant no. 23-42-00055.

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    A. I. Filetkin, A. S. Zhamkov, S. V. Ayukov & V. K. Milyukov

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Filetkin, A.I., Zhamkov, A.S., Ayukov, S.V. et al. Next Generation Gravity Missions: Studying the Possibilities of Multiple Constellations. Astron. Rep. 67, 1165–1176 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063772923110069

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