Application of high-precision two-way ranging to the spacecraft navigation

Author

Ichikawa, Tsutomu

Author_Institution

Japan Aerosp. Exploration Agency (JAXA), Sagamihara, Japan

fYear

2010

fDate

18-21 Aug. 2010

Firstpage

817

Lastpage

821

Abstract

The application of precision two-way ranging to orbit determination with relatively short data arcs is investigated for the interplanetary mission. Analysis of the X-band radiometric data acquired from the spacecraft indicated that assuming under good signal conditions sub-meter precision and 10-m ranging will be achieved. A range data filtering. The accuracy of the spacecraft orbit solution obtained with X-band Doppler and precision ranging were found to be consistent with simple theoretical calculations, which predicted that angular accuracies of a few nrad were achievable. The navigation accuracy achieved with precision ranging was marginally better than that obtained using Delta-DOR (Delta-VLBI).

Keywords

Doppler effect; aerospace computing; information filtering; matrix algebra; navigation; precision engineering; regression analysis; space vehicles; Delta-DOR; Delta-VLBI; X-band Doppler; X-band radiometric data; error covariance matrix; high precision two way ranging; interplanetary mission; range data filtering; regression equation; spacecraft navigation; spacecraft orbit determination; Accuracy; Distance measurement; Doppler effect; Estimation; Navigation; Orbits; Space vehicles; Delta-DOR; Ranging; Spacecraft navigation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

SICE Annual Conference 2010, Proceedings of

Conference_Location

Taipei

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7642-8

Type

conf

Filename

5603213