China's BeiDou satellite navigation system (BDS) has completed its full constellation in orbit since June 2020. Services have been evolved from regional (BDS-2) to global (BDS-3). This contribution evaluates the impact of solar radiation pressure (SRP) modeling on satellite orbits and geodetic parameters. To that end, we process 2 years of BDS observations (2019-2021), collected by a network of 100 ground stations. A physical a priori box-wing model based on the estimated optical properties is introduced. Various physical effects, such as radiator emission and thermal radiation of solar panels are considered. The ECOM (Empirical CODE orbit Model), ECOM+along-track and ECOM2 models are employed on top in the experiment. We show that without the use of the a priori box-wing model, the ECOM+along-track model shows clear better orbit solutions during eclipse seasons for BDS-3 satellites. This is proven to be mainly due to the thermal radiation of the solar panels. However, the along-track acceleration is highly correlated with LOD (length of day) and ECOM parameters. LOD estimates in this case are contaminated. When using the physical a priori box-wing model satellite orbital errors are greatly reduced for all the ECOM models. For instance, orbit misclosures of BDS-3 CAST (China Academy of Space Technology) satellites improve by a factor of two for the ECOM model during eclipse seasons. Furthermore, the use of the a priori box-wing model mitigates a great majority of the spurious signals in the geodetic parameters.


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    Title :

    BeiDou Satellite Radiation Force Models for Precise Orbit Determination and Geodetic Applications


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    Publication date :

    2022-08-01


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    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English