CDDIS: NASA's Archive of Space Geodesy Data
SLR Combination Center (CC) Orbit Product (weekly files, generated weekly)

doi: 10.5067/SLR/SLR_ILRSORB_001

Data Center Citation

Noll, Carey E., The Crustal Dynamics Data Information System: A resource to support scientific analysis using space geodesy, Advances in Space Research, Volume 45, Issue 12, 15 June 2010, Pages 1421-1440, ISSN 0273-1177, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2010.01.018.

Data Citation

International Laser Ranging Service (ILRS), SLR Combination Center (CC) Orbit Product, Greenbelt, MD, USA:NASA Crustal Dynamics Data Information System (CDDIS), Accessed [[enter user data access date]] at doi: 10.5067/SLR/SLR_ILRSORB_001.

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Summary

  • Name: SLR Combination Center (CC) Orbit Product
  • Format: SP3c format
  • Spatial Coverage: 90.0 to -90.0, 180.0 to -180.0
  • Temporal Coverage: 2016-02-20 to present
  • Temporal Resolution: weekly
  • File Size: 30kb
  • Platforms: etalon1, etalon2, lageos1, lageos2

Description

ILRS Analysis Centers provide weekly satellite orbit solutions for LAGEOS-1 and -2 and Etalon-1 and -2 to the CDDIS using pre-determined schedules. The orbits are computed using SLR data collected over the previous seven days; their reference frame is the Earth Centered-Earth Fixed (ECEF) realized by the latest SLR reference frame and the IERS Bulletin A EOP series (USNO).

The ILRS Combination Centers (CC) retrieve these solutions to produce the ILRS-A and ILRS-B combined product, which are also archived at the CDDIS. These combination solutions are considered the official ILRS orbital products.

The final ILRS combined orbit solutions consist of weekly orbit files, generated on a weekly basis approximately 10 days after the end of the solution week. All orbit solution files utilize the Extended Standard Product - 3 (SP3c) format.

The ILRS combined orbit products are archived in subdirectories by satellite and date; the date is the end of the 7-day interval spanned by the orbit. Each subdirectory contains the individual AC input solutions used for the combination and the two Combination Center solutions along with the corresponding summary files.

Data Access

SLR Combination Center (CC) Orbit Products are online:

https://cddis.nasa.gov/archive/slr/products/orbits/

in subdirectories by satellite name and week as follows:

SATNAME/YYMMDD/CENTERNAME.orb.SATNAME.YYMMDD.vXX.sp3.gz

Code Meaning
SATNAME etalon1, etalon2, lageos1, lageos2, ajisai, lares, larets, starlette, stella
YY 2-digit year
MM 2-digit month
DD 2-digit day
CENTERNAME
ilrsa
ILRS primary combination solution - Italian Space Agency, Centro di Geodesia Spaziale "G. Colombo" (ASI/CGS), Italy
ilrsb
ILRS backup combination solution - Joint Center for Earth System Technology/Goddard Space Flight Center (JCET/GSFC) Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
XX numeric version number
gz gzip compressed file

Documentation

http://cddis.nasa.gov/Data_and_Derived_Products/SLR/Precise_orbits.html