The report contains the contributions by the Section Orbital Mechanics (SOM) of Delft University of Technology's (DUT) Faculty of Aerospace Engineering to the final reports of three European Space Administration (ESA) contract studies which have been performed by European teams. The studies are: Study on satellite-to-satellite tracking with POPSAT and a Remote Sensing ERS-class satellite. Study of a satellite-to-satellite tracking gravity mission. Study on precise gravity field determination methods and mission requirements. The contributions by DUT/SOM to the first two studies dealt primarily with the application of satellite-to-satellite tracking (SST) between the high-altitude POPSAT satellite and an ERS-class or GRM satellite to the orbit determination of the latter two satellites. The DUT/SOM contributions to the third ESA study consisted of a survey of the general principles of SST and the previous applications of this concept, a review of uncertainties of existing drag models, the determination of the effects of drag, direct luni-solar attraction and tides on the orbit, the SST observable and the gravity gradient (SGG) observable.


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    Title :

    Satellite Orbit Determination and Gravity Field Recovery from Satellite-to-Satellite Tracking


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    Publication date :

    1989


    Size :

    358 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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