An Evaluation of Jacchia 71 and MSIS90 Atmosphere Models with NASA ODERACS Decay Data

The Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-60) deployed six Orbital Debris Radar Calibration Spheres (ODERACS 1) on February 9, 1994. A year later on February 3, 1995, three more spheres and three small dipoles (ODERACS 2) were placed in orbit from Discovery (STS-63). The orbital lifetimes of these metal sphe...

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