The GSFC Flight Dynamics Facility (FDF) is responsible for daily and post maneuver orbit determination for the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS). The most stringent requirement for this orbit determination is 75 meters total position accuracy (3-sigma) predicted over one day for Terra's onboard navigation system. To maintain an accurate solution onboard Terra, a solution is generated and provided by the FDF Four hours after a TDRS maneuver. A number of factors present challenges to this support, such as maneuver prediction uncertainty and potentially unreliable tracking from User satellities. Reliable support is provided by comparing an extended Kalman Filter (estimated using ODTK) against a Batch Least Squares system (estimated using GTDS).


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    Title :

    Operational Challenges In TDRS Post-Maneuver Orbit Determination


    Contributors:
    J. Laing (author) / J. Myers (author) / D. Ward (author) / R. Lamb (author)

    Publication date :

    2015


    Size :

    25 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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