Orbit Determination and Analysis
Published on 29. July 1997
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Paperback/Softback
120 pages
978-0-08-043288-5 (ISBN)
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This publication contains the proceedings of the meetings of the COSPAR Technical Panel on Satellite Dynamics which took place during the 31st Cospar Scientific Assembly held in Birmingham (UK) in July 1996. The 20 papers cover a variety of topics relating mainly to satellite orbit determination and analysis. A group of papers discusses orbit determination of low earth orbiters, in particular earth observation and research missions having high accuracy and using various various types of tracking support (data relay satellites, PRARE, laser, GPS). Two papers on geostationary orbits describe a project for their use in time-transfer and their evolution with time. Modelling problems associated with surface forces are analysed by a number of authors (an overview paper on Lageos perturbation models; the impact of surface forces on gravity models covering penumbra affects, numerical integration and attitude motion). One paper describes a visualisation tool for optimising the use of navigation data for certain science missions.
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English
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Amsterdam
Netherlands
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Elsevier Science & Technology
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-0-08-043288-5 (9780080432885)
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Orbit determination of Topex/Poseidon and TDRSS satellites using TDRSS and BRTS tracking (P.N.A.M. Visser and B.A.C. Ambrosius). Advances in SLR orbit determination (R. Kolienkiewicz et al. ). On evolution of geostationary satellite orbits (R.I. Kiladze and A.S. Sochilina). Recent progress in modeling the nongravitational forces affecting the LAGEOS orbit (D. Vokrouhlicky and P. Farinella). Nongravitational forces acting on the CHAMP satellite (L. Sehnal et al. ). Numerical integration of nonregular functions in satellite dynamics (A.A. Trubitsina). Improving science return using orbit navigation analysis bassed on no-imaging science data and the GGS visualization tool (K.E. Simmons et al. ). A possible impact of the earth's free oscillations on satellite orbits (J.Kostelecky and J.Klokocnik). Highly eccentric satellite orbits (E.Wnuk).