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Task 3. Answer the questions to the text.
1. What are the satellite geodetic methods determined by?

2. What spheres is satellite geodesy applied in?
3. What are the main goals of satellite geodesy?

4. How is satellite geodesy used for geodetic control and
geodynamics?
5. Are the satellite geodetic technologies used in navigation and
marine geodesy? How?

Task 4. Define whether the following statements are true or
false and translate them. Correct the false ones according to

the text.

1. Satellite geodesy includes geodetic very long baseline
interferometry and lunar laser ranging.
2. Satellite geodesy is not used to measure crustal dynamics and

polar motion.
3. Satellite geodesy is used for establishing geodetic connections
between islands or with the mainland.

4. Main goal of satellite geodesy is the determination of the figure
of the Earth, positioning and navigation.
5. Surveyors have never used satellite geodetic methods for
detailed plane surveying.

Main techniques of satellite geodesy

Task 1. Read and memorize the following words and word-

combinations:

payload – корисний;
radar altimetry – радіолокаційна альтиметрія;
spaceborne laser – космічний лазер;

retroreflector – ретрорефлектор;
instantaneous – миттєвий, моментальний;
orbit perturbation – пертурбація орбіт;
calibration – калібрування, перевірка;

radial velocity – радіальна скорість;
constellation – сузіря, плеяда;
circular orbit – кругова орбіта;

time transfer – час переміщення;
pseudorange – помилковий, фальшивий.

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