http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.04682
Two radio-science instruments have included into the Luna-Glob and Luna-Resource projects in the frame of Russian Luna exploration program: the lander’s radio beacon and the orbiter’s receiver. Three types of experiments are planned: orbital doppler measurements, VLBI interferometry, and Same Beam Interferometry (SBI). An accuracy of acceleration measurements in the Lander-Orbiter experiment coud be about 3-10 mGal. VLBI and SBI measurements of relative landers distancies with accuracy better than millimeters should give a tool for a accuracy improvement in the following scientific tasks: precise determination of orbital and rotational movement of the Earth and the Moon, determination of mass distribution and internal movements in the Moon’s interior, check of general relativity effects.
V. Gromov and A. Kosov
Wed, 16 Dec 15
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Comments: 2 pages. “The Sixth Moscow Solar System Symposium 6M-S3” (Space Research Institute, Moscow, Russia, October 5-9, 2015), CD-ROM and book of abstracts, pp.43-44 (6MS3-MN-20)
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