• DocumentCode
    3007583
  • Title

    Three-way Doppler observation of Mars Express

  • Author

    Shang, Kun ; Jian, Nianchuan ; Ping, Jinsong ; Shi, Xian ; Zhang, Sujun ; Yan, Jianguo ; Wang, Mingyuan

  • Author_Institution
    Shanghai Astron. Obs., CAS, Shanghai, China
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    8-10 Oct. 2009
  • Firstpage
    314
  • Lastpage
    317
  • Abstract
    Using the radio telescopes in Chinese VLBI Net (CVN) and the sampling board, we have developed algorithms that extract three-way Doppler information from the radio tracking data of Mars Express (MEX) - a Martian probe that belongs to European Space Agency (ESA). Our latest results indicate the accuracy of three-way Doppler is about 1 mm/s in 1 second integration time, relative to an 8.4 GHz carrier. The three-way Doppler data have been used in orbit determination of Mars Express.
  • Keywords
    radio tracking; radiotelescopes; satellite tracking; Chinese VLBI Net; ESA; European Space Agency; Mars Express; Martian probe; frequency 8.4 GHz; radio telescopes; radio tracking data; three-way Doppler observation; time 1 s; Mars Express; radio tracking; three-way Doppler;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Communications, 2009. APCC 2009. 15th Asia-Pacific Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Shanghai
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-4784-8
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-4785-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/APCC.2009.5375629
  • Filename
    5375629