New GPS-based techniques for tracking high Earth orbiters are under evaluation at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). One promising approach dispenses with the GPS flight receiver, employing instead a simple beacon on the user spacecraft.
A Novel Use of GPS for Determining the Orbit of a Geosynchronous Satellite: The TDRS/GPS Demonstration
1994-09-01
Preprint
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English
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