It has been suggested to establish a search and rescue orbiting satellite system as a means for locating distress signals from downed aircraft, small boats, and overland expeditions. Emissions from Emergency Locator Transmitters (ELT), now available in most U.S. aircraft are to be utilized in the positioning procedure. A description is presented of a set of Doppler navigation algorithms for extracting ELT position coordinates from Doppler data. The algorithms have been programmed for a small computing machine and the resulting system has successfully processed both real and simulated Doppler data. A software system for solving the Doppler navigation problem must include an orbit propagator, a first guess algorithm, and an algorithm for estimating longitude and latitude from Doppler data. Each of these components is considered.


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    Title :

    Efficient estimation algorithms for a satellite-aided search and rescue mission


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Astrodynamics Specialist Conference


    Publication date :

    1977-09-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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