Displacement of light during satellite laser ranging
2014jdx | Ignatenko Yu.V., Ignatenko I.Yu., Tryapitsyn V.N.  // Crimean Laser Observatory of the Main Astronomical Observatory of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Yalta, Republic of Crimea; Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Russian Metrological Institute of Technical Physics and Radio Engeneering” (VNIIFTRI), Mendeleevo, Russia, igig@vniiftri.ru

This article describes the results of a study of the anomalous deviation of light detected during laser ranging of the Earth artificial satellites. A special technique developed for construction of a three-dimensional vector of the laser beam deviation based on processing of its projections onto a focal plane of a telescope is stated. Appropriate equations are derived. A method and results of test measurements of the displacement of light near the surface of the Earth, confirming the universal nature of this phenomenon, are described. From these results, the conclusion of the motion of light medium, traditionally called the luminiferous ether, at a rate in magnitude and direction close to but not equal to the velocity of the Earth is derived. Measured the deflection of light from a given direction is the result of adding the relative velocity of the satellite, velocity of the Earth, and finally light medium speed. This last fact explains the seasonal dependence of the measurements.

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