GEOS-2 Geographic Position and Auxiliary Data Level-2 (PostScripts)

https://doi.org/10.24400/802406/z7g7-7w4c

2022-07-26 10:03:57Z

This dataset contains plots GEOS-2 ephemeris data:

Geographic Position
Sat-E-Sun
Spin Axis Tilt
Spin Axis in VHD
Dipole Axis in VHD
Sun Dir. in VHD
Quality

Users of these data are encouraged to acknowledge ESA/ESTEC (European Space Agency / European Space Research and Technology Center), DSRI (Danish Space Research Institute), CNES (Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales) for their support to the SCM GEOS team, NASA/GSFC (National Aeronautics and Space Administration / Goddard Space Flight Center) and CNR (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche) for their support to the MAG GEOS team, and the CDPP (Centre des Données de la Physique des Plasmas) for the distribution of the GEOS data, in all publications. If PI/coI are not part of the publication list, then we suggest to add Specifically, we acknowledge Roger Gendrin and Patrick Robert for use of SCM data from the GEOS mission.

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Postscript

Number of Low Speed Format (LSF)

Number of Low Speed Format (LSF)

Latitude of the Spacecraft

Latitude of the Spacecraft

Longitude of the Spacecraft

Longitude of the Spacecraft

°

0.0174532925>rad

Distance of the Spacecraft to the centre of the Earth

Distance of the Spacecraft to the centre of the Earth

km

1e3>m

Sun S/C angle

Angle between the two lines Earth-centre to satellite and Sun to Earth-centre (i.e eclipse at zero angle)

°

0.0174532925>rad

S/C spin axis right ascension

Right ascension of the spin axis tilt in spacecraft coordinates.

°

0.0174532925>rad

S/C spin axis declination

Declination of the spin axis tilt in spacecraft coordinates.

°

0.0174532925>rad

S/C spin axis in VDH

S/C spin axis components in VDH system

Magnetic dipole axis in VDH system

Components of the magnetic dipole axis in VDH system

Sun axis in VDH system

Components of the Sun axis in VDH system

Data quality

Data quality flag