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David E. Smith
Researcher at Goddard Space Flight Center
Publications - 171
Citations - 12888
David E. Smith is an academic researcher from Goddard Space Flight Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mars Exploration Program & Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter. The author has an hindex of 50, co-authored 171 publications receiving 11979 citations.
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Gravity field information from Gravity Probe-B
TL;DR: The Gravity Probe-B mission will carry the Stanford Gyroscope relativity experiment into orbit in the mid 1990's, as well as a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver whose tracking data will be used to study the earth gravity field as mentioned in this paper.
Polar motion and earth tides from Beacon Explorer C
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed 17 months of range data from a Goddard Space Flight Center laser tracking station to determine the tidal perturbations in the orbit of the Beacon Explorer-C satellite and the variation in the tracking station latitude.
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The Europa Ocean Discovery mission
B. C. Edwards,Christopher F. Chyba,James B. Abshire,Joseph A. Burns,Paul Geissler,Alex S. Konopliv,Michael C. Malin,Steven J. Ostro,Charley T. Rhodes,Chuck Rudiger,Xuan-Min Shao,David E. Smith,Steven W. Squyres,Peter C. Thomas,Chauncey W. Uphoff,Gerald Walberg,Charles Werner,Charles F. Yoder,Maria T. Zuber +18 more
TL;DR: The Europa Ocean Discovery (DES) mission as mentioned in this paper is a Discovery-class mission to determine the existence of a liquid water ocean on Europa and to characterize Europa's surface structure, which is a very interesting topic.
The Clementine Mission: Initial Results from lunar mapping
Paul D. Spudis,E. Shoemaker,C. Acton,B. Burratti,Thomas C. Duxbury,Daniel N. Baker,David E. Smith,J. E. Blamont,Merton E. Davies,Eric M. Eliason +9 more
TL;DR: Clementine as mentioned in this paper was a mission designed to test the space worthiness of a variety of advanced sensors for use on military surveillance satellites while, at the same time, gathering useful scientific information on the composition and structure of the Moon and a near Earth asteroid.
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Dynamic satellite geodesy
TL;DR: In this article, the operation of the GEOS-3 and Lageos spacecraft is described as part of the Earth and Ocean Dynamic Program (EODP) as a precision target for making geodetic measurements with ground laser systems.