A Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS) Onboard Navigation System (TONS) is currently being developed by NASA to provide a high accuracy autonomous navigation capability for users of TDRSS and its successor, the Advanced TDRSS (ATDRSS). The fully autonomous user onboard navigation system will support orbit determination, time determination, and frequency determination, based on observation of a continuously available, unscheduled navigation beacon signal. A TONS experiment will be performed in conjunction with the Explorer Platform (EP) Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer (EUVE) mission to flight quality TONS Block 1. An overview is presented of TONS and a preliminary analysis of the navigation accuracy anticipated for the TONS experiment. Descriptions of the TONS experiment and the associated navigation objectives, as well as a description of the onboard navigation algorithms, are provided. The accuracy of the selected algorithms is evaluated based on the processing of realistic simulated TDRSS one way forward link Doppler measurements. The analysis process is discussed and the associated navigation accuracy results are presented.


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    Title :

    Preliminary Navigation Accuracy Analysis for the TDRSS Onboard Navigation System (TONS) Experiment on EP/EUVE


    Contributors:
    C. J. Gramling (author) / A. C. Long (author) / T. Lee (author) / N. A. Ottenstein (author) / M. V. Samii (author)

    Publication date :

    1991


    Size :

    22 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English






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