This chapter provides an overview of ground‐based satellite tracking. It depicts the two‐line element (TLE)/tracklet generation from ground measurement optical telescopes and radars. The chapter shows how the TLE information can be utilized to track CubeSats with ground stations and focuses on propagation techniques. It explains the principles of operations of ground stations. These include fundamentals of antenna technology, tracking software, and challenges in CubeSat tracking. The position and velocity of a spacecraft on orbit can be characterized by different sets of orbital elements such as state vectors, TLE, and Keplerian elements. The chapter explains how to convert TLE data into azimuth and elevation values that can be used by the rotator control of a ground station antenna. Two main categories of propagation methods such as numerical methods and analytical methods are also discussed.


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    Titel :

    II‐3


    Untertitel :

    Ground‐based Satellite Tracking


    Beteiligte:
    Atem de Carvalho, Rogerio (Herausgeber:in) / Estela, Jaime (Herausgeber:in) / Langer, Martin (Herausgeber:in) / Stoll, Enrico (Autor:in) / Letschnik, Jürgen (Autor:in) / Kebschull, Christopher (Autor:in)

    Erschienen in:

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2020-05-11


    Format / Umfang :

    24 pages




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch