You don’t have to try too hard – this is very nearly the day-to-day reality at ESA’s new Izaña 1 (IZN-1) laser ranging station in Tenerife, Spain.

Together with the Satellite Laser Ranging Station of the Austrian Academy of Sciences' Space Research Institute at the Lustbühel Observatory, decisive progress has been made here.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, September 17, 2018 ” KBRwyle will deliver and commission satellite laser ranging stations as part of a NASA project on space geodetic techniques under a potential $48M ...

Only certified/approved ILRS stations will be authorized to perform laser ranging following a predetermined assessment, using approved laser-ranging stations operating within set technical parameters ...

Last month, scientists bounced a laser off the Soviet Union’s old Lunokhod 1 rover, which trekked across the moon’s landscape more than four decades ago.

Satellite laser ranging is the gold standard for pinpointing orbits: ground stations fire nanosecond pulses, which bounce off retroreflectors on a spacecraft and return to reveal distance down to ...

Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR) can be used to determine the distance between a satellite and Earth very precisely. This is important for applications in geodesy, for satellite navigation and, in the ...

Fourteen laser ranging stations participated in a campaign to track ESA's GIOVE-A satellite during the spring and summer of 2006, providing invaluable data for the characterization of the ...

China has achieved a milestone feat, making the first-ever laser ranging measurement from Earth to the moon during the daytime.

More accurate orbit predictions for satellites and space debris as well as a better understanding of the water masses present on Earth: Researchers at achieved both using satellite laser ranging.