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NASA’s Crustal Dynamics Data Information System (CDDIS) archives Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR) data collected by the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) platform.

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), Ground Station only one-way LOLA FR Data, Greenbelt, MD, USA:NASA Crustal Dynamics Data Information System (CDDIS), Accessed [[enter user data access date]] at doi:10.5067/SLR/SLR_GROUND_STATION_ONE_WAY_LOLA_FR_001.

Other standard citation formats may be used for this data set and can be found at the DOI Citation Formatter website.

More information about CDDIS data citations and acknowledgments is available.

Summary

Description

Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) one-way laser ranging full rate data. These files contain the full rate data (all ranges collected) as delivered from the ground stations participating in one way ranging. Each file is an aggregate of full rate data collected for every station on a particular day. Note that this does not constitute the official data delivered by the LOLA mission; for these data, please visit the LOLA Planetary Data System listed in the reference. The ground station only data may be useful for those who wish to do their own transmit-receive pairing from onboard spacecraft data.

Data Access

Ground Station only one-way LOLA FR Data files are online. The starting directory is: https://cddis.nasa.gov/archive/slr/lrolr.

as follows:

lrlro_YYYYMMDD[HH].frf.gz

CodeMeaning
YYYY4-digit year
MM2-digit month
DD2-digit day
HH2-digit hour (for hourly files only)
gzgzipped compressed file


Documentation

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

https://pds-geosciences.wustl.edu/