Abstract
A laser ranging instrument is being developed to measure the spatial variations in the Earth's gravity field. It will range in space to a cube corner on a passive co-orbiting sub-satellite with a velocity accuracy of 20 to 50 um/sec by using AlGaAs lasers intensity modulated at 2 GHz.
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