Prediction Centers

Below is a table of prediction providers for SLR (i.e., no LLR):

Agency	Abbreviations in CPF Files/Historic Files	Contact Information
Honeywell Technology Solutions Inc., HTSI, formerly ATSC, GSFC, USA	HTS/HTSI	Julie Horvath julie.horvath@honeywell.com
Center for Space Research University of Texas, USA	UTX/CSR	Richard Eanes/Randy Ricklefs eanes@csr.utexas.edu / ricklefs@csr.utexas.edu
Center for Orbit Determination in Europe (CODE), Astronomical Institute University of Bern (AIUB)	COD/COD	Rolf Dach/Daniela Thaller rolf.dach@aiub.unibe.ch / daniela.thaller@aiub.unibe.ch
Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales, France	CNE/CNES	Jean-Paul Berthias Jean-Paul.Berthias@cnes.fr
European Space Operations Centre	ESA/ESOC	Marco A García Matatoros Marco.Antonio.Garcia.Matatoros@esa.int
GeoForschungsZentrum, Germany	GFZ/GFZ	Roland Schmidt prd@gfz-potsdam.de
Mission Control Center, Russia	MCC/MCC	Vladimir Glotov cnss@mcc.rsa.ru
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 926	GSF/G926	David Rowlands David.D.Rowlands@nasa.gov
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Japan	JAX/JAXA	Shinichi Nakamura nakamura.shinichi@jaxa.jp
NERC Space Geodesy Facility (NSGF), formerly RGO, United Kingdom	SGF/NSGF	Graham Appleby GAPP@nerc.ac.uk
Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), USA	NRL	Mark Davis mark.davis@nrl.navy.mil

Note: JAXA has produced predictions for ADEOS and LRE. CSR and MCC discontinued producing predictions as of August 1999 and May 2000, respectively. RGO changed it's abbreviation to NERC in March 2001 and to NSGF in June 2004.

Below is a table of satellites and primary/backup prediction (CPF) providers:

Official Satellite Name	Prediction Provider (3-character code)
Official Satellite Name	HTS	SGF	COD	ESA	GFZ	UTX	GSF	JAX	MCC	NRL	CNE
ajisai	P	B						B
alos								P
anderra/p										P
apollo##						P
beaconc	P	B
champ					P
envisat	B			P
ers2	B			P
etalon1/2	P	B
ets8								P
gfo1	B						P
giovea/b				P
glonass##	B		P
gps35/36	B		P
gracea/b					P
icesat						P
jason1/2	B	B									P
lageos1/2	P	B						B
larets	P	B							B
luna17/21						P
starlette	P	B
stella	P	B
terrasarx					P

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