This thesis provides a detailed analysis of the coupling of satellite rotations into the inter-satellite range, measured by the Laser Ranging Interferometer (LRI) onboard the GRACE Follow-On satellites.

The GRACE Follow-On satellite mission measures distance variations between its two satellites in order to derive monthly gravity field maps, indicating mass variability on Earth on a scale of a few 100 km originating from ...

The satellite pair of the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) Follow-On orbits the Earth, while their inter-satellite distance changes are measured with an accuracy never reached before. This is achieved with ...

The topic of this thesis is the initial link acquisition process for intersatellite laser interfer- ometers. Furthermore, a technique was studied that can be applied to enhance the signal to noise ratio of the established ...

This thesis is separated into two parts. The first part is about satellite orbits for space-based gravitational wave detectors. Gravitational waves are ripples in the four-dimensional spacetime and were firstly predicted ...