The tracking of artificial earth satellites by other earth satellites offers the potential for increased accuracy in estimating orbit and geopotential coefficients. The improvement in accuracy is due primarily to the near‐continuous coverage possible, the addition of new geometry between tracker and tracked satellite, and the decrease in sensitivity to errors in ground‐station position. This paper presents the results of simulation studies of tracking of low‐altitude satellites by a high‐altitude satellite using range measurements between satellites. The high‐altitude satellite is tracked by ground‐based range trackers. The low‐altitude satellites are tracked only by the high‐altitude satellites. Orbital elements for one tracking satellite and four tracked low‐altitude satellites are estimated, along with a set of low degree and order geopotential coefficients. Estimation of geopotential coefficients of low degree and order is shown to be considerably more accurate using satellite‐to‐satellite tracking than using ground‐based tracking. The use of data from one high‐altitude satellite tracking four low‐altitude satellites in a range of inclinations is shown to produce geopotential coefficient estimates with smaller errors than presently exist in individual coefficients or would be obtained using ground‐based tracking of the same satellites. One week of continuous tracking was assumed for this simulation.


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    Titel :

    Satellite‐Satellite Tracking for Estimating Geopotential Coefficients


    Beteiligte:
    Henriksen, Soren W. (Herausgeber:in) / Mancini, Armando (Herausgeber:in) / Chovitz, Bernard H. (Herausgeber:in) / Martin, C. F. (Autor:in) / Martin, T. V. (Autor:in) / Smith, David. E. (Autor:in)


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    1972-01-01


    Format / Umfang :

    6 pages





    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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