Citation
Abstract
With the advent of the Mariner ’71 Mission, NASA has been sending spacecraft to orbit various distant bodies within the solar system. At present, there is still no adequate theory describing the inherent state estimation accuracy, based on twoway, coherent range-rate data. It is the purpose of this article to lay the groundwork for a general elliptic theory, and in addition to provide an analytic solution for the special case of circular orbits.
Details
- Volume
- 42-98
- Published
- August 15, 1989
- Pages
- 1–25
- File Size
- 606.4 KB