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Chapter
Potential of Lunar Laser Ranging for the Determination of Earth Orientation Parameters
The distance between the observatories on the Earth and the retro-reflectors on the Moon has been regularly measured with Lunar Laser Ranging (LLR) since 1970. In recent years, LLR observations have been carri...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Estimation of Earth Rotation Parameter UT1 from Lunar Laser Ranging Observations
Since 1969 Lunar Laser Ranging (LLR) data have been collected by different observatories and analysed by various analysis groups. LLR is providing the longest time series of any space geodetic technique for st...
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Article
Test of the equivalence principle for galaxy’s dark matter by lunar laser ranging
Having 50 years of unique observations, lunar laser ranging (LLR) is used to test central elements of Einstein’s theory of relativity, like a possible temporal variation of the gravitational constant or metric...
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Article
Contributions to reference systems from Lunar Laser Ranging using the IfE analysis model
Lunar Laser Ranging (LLR) provides various quantities related to reference frames like Earth orientation parameters, coordinates and velocities of ground stations in the Earth-fixed frame and selenocentric coo...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Lunar Laser Ranging: Recent Results Based on Refined Modelling
Over 41 years of Lunar Laser Ranging (LLR) provide a unique data set of distance measurements between Earth and Moon with ever increasing precision. A further step on the way to mm-accurate LLR analysis is ref...
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Chapter
Contribution of Lunar Laser Ranging to Realise Geodetic Reference Systems
Lunar Laser Ranging (LLR) has provided observations for more than 36 years. There is enormous science potential of LLR to further our understanding of the dynamics of the Earth-Moon system (e.g.Earth orientati...