A method of determining the motion parameters of the center of mass of near-Earth spacecraft (NES) is proposed; this method is based on using both on-board instrumentation as well as a priori geomagnetic field data. Here, certain characteristics of the second information source, which are largely available from geophysics, are periodically refined based on data from on-board geomagnetic as well as extraneous (such as radio) trajectory measurements. Results are given of a simplified version of a full-scale (computer) NES geomagnetic navigation experiment.


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    Title :

    Geomagnetic navigation of near-Earth spacecraft


    Additional title:

    Geomagnetische Navigation von Raumfahrzeugen in Erdnähe


    Contributors:


    Publication date :

    1991


    Size :

    15 Seiten, 31 Quellen



    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English







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