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Besides the well-known GPS and GLONASS, newly developed systems such as Galileo, BeiDou, QZSS and NAVIC have become increasingly important. All satellites of new GNSS are equipped with laser retroreflector arrays (LRA) dedicated to Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR). SLR allows, e.g., an independent validation of microwave-based orbit products. Therefore, a fully operational online service called the multi-GNSS Orbit Validation Visualizer Using SLR (GOVUS) has been developed allowing for near real-time analysis of the quality of multi-GNSS orbits. The mean offsets of SLR residuals for Center for Orbit Determination in Europe (CODE) orbits in 2016 are at the level of \u22128, \u221238, \u221214, and \u2212107 mm, for BeiDou, Galileo, GLONASS, and QZSS, respectively, with the standard deviations of 66, 36, 29, and 100 mm. Moreover, GOVUS can be used as a database containing information on equipment used at SLR stations and multi-GNSS satellite parameters. This paper includes a comprehensive description of the functionality and the structure of the developed service with exemplary analyses. The paper points out the most critical issues, limitations and challenges of multi-GNSS and SLR tracking network in the context of the SLR orbit validation. The goal of the paper and GOVUS itself is to determine: (1) what is the current quality of multi-GNSS orbits validated using SLR results; (2) what kinds of systematic errors can affect GNSS orbits and SLR observations; and (3) how to provide the online analysis tools to the broadest possible multi-GNSS community. The service has been officially operating since March 2017 as the Associate Analysis Center of the International Laser Ranging Service (ILRS ACC).<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs9101049","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,10,16]],"date-time":"2017-10-16T11:11:09Z","timestamp":1508152269000},"page":"1049","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":37,"title":["A New Online Service for the Validation of Multi-GNSS Orbits Using SLR"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"9","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1634-388X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Rados\u0142aw","family":"Zajdel","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformatics, Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Wroc\u0142aw 50-357, Poland"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6181-1307","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Krzysztof","family":"So\u015bnica","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformatics, Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Wroc\u0142aw 50-357, Poland"}]},{"given":"Grzegorz","family":"Bury","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformatics, Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Wroc\u0142aw 50-357, Poland"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2017,10,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1671","DOI":"10.1016\/j.asr.2017.01.011","article-title":"The Multi-GNSS Experiment (MGEX) of the International GNSS Service (IGS)\u2014Achievements, prospects and challenges","volume":"59","author":"Montenbruck","year":"2017","journal-title":"Adv. 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