The ESA project SC4MGV “Assessment of Satellite Constellations for Monitoring the Variations in Earth’s Gravity Field” – overview, objectives and first results

(1) GIS, Institute of Geodesy, University of Stuttgart, Germany [author correspondence: reubelt@gis.uni-stuttgart.de]; (2) IAPG, Institute of Astronomical and Physical Geodesy, Technische Universitat Munchen, Germany; (3) TUD, Astrodynamics and Space Missions, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands; (4) ULUX, Faculte des Sciences, de la Technologie et de la Communication, Universite du Luxembourg; (5) TAS-I, Thales Alenia Space Italy S.p. A., Turin, Italy; (6) DEIMOS Space S.L.U., Madrid, Spain EGU General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, 27 April 2 May 2014