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Flyby Radio Doppler and Ranging Data Anomalies are due to Different Inbound and Outbound Velocities in the CMB Rest Frame


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The COBE, WMAP, and Planck data analyses exhibit that the CMB rest frame can be seen as a fundamental, absolute space, the CMB-space. All Earth flyby radio Doppler data anomalies can be resolved by applying the general, classical Doppler formula (CMB-Doppler formula) of first order for two-way signals between earthbound Deep Space Network stations and a spacecraft during an Earth flyby. For that purpose, the annually varying absolute velocity vector ue of Earth is used, derived from the absolute velocity vector of the solar system barycenter, usun magnitude usun = 369.82±0.11 kms-1, in direction of constellation Crater, near Leo. Together with the relative, asymptotic inbound and outbound velocity vectors vin and vout in the equatorial frame, we obtain the absolute inbound and outbound velocity vectors uin and uout in the equatorial frame. The relative, asymptotic inbound and outbound velocities are actually equal in magnitude (vin = vout), while the magnitudes of the absolute inbound and outbound velocities of a spacecraft are in general different (uin ≠ uout), leading to the apparent anomaly. Thus the use of the CMB-Doppler formula explains the so far as residual considered positive or negative differences in energy. The measured, different absolute velocities in the CMB rest frame explain the supposed radar ranging data residuals as well.


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Earth Flyby Anomalies, Absolute Velocities in the CMB Rest Frame, General Classical Doppler Formula of First and Second Order in the CMB Rest Frame.
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Roland Pabisch
Independent Researcher, Austria

Abstract


The COBE, WMAP, and Planck data analyses exhibit that the CMB rest frame can be seen as a fundamental, absolute space, the CMB-space. All Earth flyby radio Doppler data anomalies can be resolved by applying the general, classical Doppler formula (CMB-Doppler formula) of first order for two-way signals between earthbound Deep Space Network stations and a spacecraft during an Earth flyby. For that purpose, the annually varying absolute velocity vector ue of Earth is used, derived from the absolute velocity vector of the solar system barycenter, usun magnitude usun = 369.82±0.11 kms-1, in direction of constellation Crater, near Leo. Together with the relative, asymptotic inbound and outbound velocity vectors vin and vout in the equatorial frame, we obtain the absolute inbound and outbound velocity vectors uin and uout in the equatorial frame. The relative, asymptotic inbound and outbound velocities are actually equal in magnitude (vin = vout), while the magnitudes of the absolute inbound and outbound velocities of a spacecraft are in general different (uin ≠ uout), leading to the apparent anomaly. Thus the use of the CMB-Doppler formula explains the so far as residual considered positive or negative differences in energy. The measured, different absolute velocities in the CMB rest frame explain the supposed radar ranging data residuals as well.


Keywords


Earth Flyby Anomalies, Absolute Velocities in the CMB Rest Frame, General Classical Doppler Formula of First and Second Order in the CMB Rest Frame.

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