Citation
Abstract
The results of an uncompromised accuracy analysis study investigating the advantages of using two-station simultaneous tracking (quasi very long baseline interferometry) techniques to determine the far approach orbit of a distant spacecraft at a low declination angle. The analysis is restricted to batch filtering techniques, but includes the effects of unmodeled spacecraft accelerations. By properly processing the simultaneous doppler and simultaneous range data, the errors resulting from the low-declination geometry are reduced by a factor of two to four, and the errors resulting from unmodeled spacecraft accelerations are reduced by two orders of magnitude.
Details
- Volume
- VII
- Published
- February 15, 1972
- Pages
- 51–60
- File Size
- 670.7 KB