EVN Seminar: Observing interplanetary spacecraft with radio telescopes (Giuseppe Cimò)

Series of online seminars “The sharpest view of the radio Universe: VLBI – Connecting Astronomers Worldwide”.

Full information at https://www.evlbi.org/evn-seminars.

In this seminar, our speaker, Giuseppe Cimò (Joint Institute for VLBI ERIC) will talk about “Observing interplanetary spacecraft with radio telescopes: connecting astronomers and space scientists”.

Abstract: Observations of human-made satellites using arrays of radio telescopes can provide the ultra-precise determination of their speed and their position on the celestial sphere. The Planetary Radio Interferometry and Doppler Experiment (PRIDE) is a technique that connects ground-based radio astronomy and space science to deliver the sharpest view of spacecraft in our solar system. PRIDE's precise determination of the lateral position of spacecraft can be used for a variety of scientific applications, including improvement of ephemerides, ultra-precise celestial mechanics of planetary systems, gravimetry, spacecraft orbit determination, and fundamental physics. Furthermore, observations of the radio signal transmitted by a spacecraft are an important source of information on interplanetary plasma and solar wind. In this talk, I will present novel results of observing ESA and NASA spacecraft with ground-based radio telescopes and demonstrate the capabilities of such a technique.

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