GPS-based precision orbit determination - A Topex flight experimentPlans for a Topex/Poseiden flight experiment to test the accuracy of using GPS data for precision orbit determination of earth satellites are presented. It is expected that the GPS-based precision orbit determination will provide subdecimeter accuracies in the radial component of the Topex orbit when the extant gravity model is tuned for wavelengths longer than about 1000 kms. The concept, design, flight receiver, antenna system, ground processing, and data processing of GPS are examined. Also, an accurate quasi-geometric orbit determination approach called nondynamic or reduced dynamic tracking which relies on the use of the pseudorange and the carrier phase measurements to reduce orbit errors arising from mismodeled dynamics is discussed.
Document ID
19890025275
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Melbourne, William G. (Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Davis, Edgar S. (California Institute of Technology Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States)
Date Acquired
August 13, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1988
Subject Category
Space Communications, Spacecraft Communications, Command And Tracking