Interplanetary spacecraft navigation relies on three types of terrestrial tracking observables.1) Ranging measures the distance between the observing site and the probe. 2) The line-of-sight velocity of the probe is inferred from Doppler-shift by measuring the frequency shift of the received signal with respect to the unshifted frequency. 3) Differential angular coordinates of the probe with respect to natural radio sources are nominally obtained via a differential delay technique of (Delta) DOR (Delta Differential One-way Ranging). The accuracy of spacecraft coordinate determination depends on the measurement uncertainties associated with each of these three techniques. We evaluate the corresponding sources of error and present a detailed error budget.


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    Title :

    Radiometric Spacecraft Tracking for Deep Space Navigation


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Institute of Navigation International Technical Meeting (ION-ITM) ; 2008 ; San Diego, CA, United States


    Publication date :

    2008-02-12


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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