Print Email Facebook Twitter Planetary Radio Interferometry and Doppler Experiment (PRIDE) for radio occultation studies Title Planetary Radio Interferometry and Doppler Experiment (PRIDE) for radio occultation studies: A Venus Express test case Author Bocanegra Bahamon, T.M. (TU Delft Astrodynamics & Space Missions) Contributor Vermeersen, L.L.A. (promotor) Gurvits, L. (promotor) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Date 2019-03-19 Abstract The thesis that you are about to read deals with the implementation of a technique to study atmospheres of planets or moons in the Solar System. We use radio telescopes on Earth to track spacecraft that are orbiting planets, and use the signal the spacecraft emits, as it crosses the planet’s atmosphere, to investigate its physical characteristics. Amazing, isn’t it? Often, we get lost in our daily routines and we lose sight of the overall picture. We forget how truly astounding the experiments we are able to undertake are, using the universe as our lab. I feel very privileged to have been able to do this as part of the work that led to this dissertation. Subject Doppler and VLBI spacecraft trackingplanetary missionsradio science applicationsradio occultationplanetary atmospheres To reference this document use: https://doi.org/10.4233/uuid:738b9b01-d130-4ae4-bc51-c989824a8760 ISBN 978-94-6375-341-8 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type doctoral thesis Rights © 2019 T.M. Bocanegra Bahamon Files PDF dissertation_TMBocanegraB ... _Final.pdf 9.73 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:738b9b01-d130-4ae4-bc51-c989824a8760/datastream/OBJ/view