Determination of two Satellites’ relative motion using tracking measurements

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 46 - Trang 523-528 - 2008
M. Yu. Ovchinnikov1, S. S. Tkachev1
1Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Tóm tắt

A technique to determine the initial relative velocity of two satellites at the initial time instant, based on the results of NORAD system’s measurements, is presented. The determination of a relative initial position is shown to result in the unsatisfactory accuracy. This technique is applied to determining the initial velocity of separation of the first Russian nanosatellite TNS-0 from the International Space Station.

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