NSSDCA ID: PSPG-00186
Availability: At NSSDC, Ready for Offline Distribution (or Staging if Digital)
The line-of-sight acceleration profiles data record, or LOSAPDR, gives the local spacecraft acceleration along the line-of-sight from the earth to the spacecraft to Venus. These LOS accelerations can be used to place constraints on the mass distribution within the planet. These files contain results from processing of radio tracking data. Splines are fitted to Doppler residual values resulting from spacecraft orbit solutions. Analytical differentiation of spline results is then interpreted as local spacecraft acceleration along the line-of-sight. This data set contains 5 files: a README file, 3 ASCII text files, 1 Postscript file and 1 subdirectory. Input files are from the ATDFDR (Archival Tracking Data File Data Record).
Questions and comments about this data collection can be directed to: Dr. David R. Williams
Name | Role | Original Affiliation | |
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Mr. William L. Sjogren | General Contact | NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory | wls@nomad.jpl.nasa.gov |