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Date:2002-10-25 08:51:00
Sender:Van Husson, ILRS Central Bureau <Husson, Van <Van.Husson@honeywell-tsi.com>>
Subject:[SLR-Mail] No. 988: new NRL system and its eccs
Author:Van Husson, ILRS Central Bureau
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SLR Electronic Mail 2002-10-25 08:51:00 UTC Message No. 988
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Author: Van Husson, ILRS Central Bureau
Subject: new NRL system and its eccs

There is a new NRL SLR site in Stafford, Virginia
(near Washington DC). They have ranged to satellites,
but are currently with-holding normal point data until
they have finished their internal data evaluation.

They have provided a site log (stal_20021016.log) at:

ftp://cddisa.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/reports/slrlog/


The information below has been extracted from this log.

Site Identifiers
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DOMES Number: 49654M001
CDP SOD: 78658601

Site eccentricities
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X(m) = 0.8437 North(m) = -1.2160
Y(m) = -3.8525 East(m) = -0.0190
Z(m) = 1.5832 Up(m) = 4.0720

Approximate coordinates
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X coordinate [m]: 1092770.609
Y coordinate [m]: -4877220.373
Z coordinate [m]: 3948976.125

Latitude [deg]: 38.499215 N
Longitude [deg]: 77.371107 W
Elevation [m]: 23.9185

Misc information
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Wavelength: 1064 nm
LAGEOS RMS: a few cm (single shot)

Points of Contact
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WILLIAM SCHARPF, SCHARPF@NCST.NRL.NAVY.MIL
MARK DAVIS, MDAVIS@SSDD.NRL.NAVY.MIL

From: ”Husson, Van”

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