Title :
GNSS coverage performance for medium-high earth orbital satellites
Author :
Zhao Xiaofang ; Haihong Wang ; Wu Xiangjun ; Wang Jie ; Chen Zhonggui
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Spacecraft Syst. Eng., Beijing, China
fDate :
May 31 2014-June 2 2014
Abstract :
With the launching activities of spacecrafts, there come the increased demands of autonomous navigation of those medium-high Earth orbital satellites. Now the application of satellite navigation system is mainly on LEO satellite, its application on the medium-high Earth orbital satellites has to be further explored. The navigation of GEO satellites is essentially one kind of parameter estimation and in this paper the feasibility of GEO satellites´ navigation based on GNSS was explored. In this article the coverage analysis was done to answering the feasibility of the application of GNSS for those satellites. Besides, the observation geometry of GEO satellites based on GNSS was also considered. Those results could be a reference for those high orbit satellites´ navigation based on satellite navigation system.
Keywords :
artificial satellites; satellite navigation; GEO satellites navigation; GNSS coverage performance; LEO satellite; autonomous navigation; medium-high Earth orbital satellites; parameter estimation; satellite navigation system; Decision support systems; Coverage; GDOP; GNSS; Medium-high Earth orbital satellite; Navigation; estimation;
Conference_Titel :
Control and Decision Conference (2014 CCDC), The 26th Chinese
Conference_Location :
Changsha
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-3707-3
DOI :
10.1109/CCDC.2014.6852480