This study investigated the minimum requirements to establish a satellite tracking system architecture for a hostile 'parasitic microsatellite' to rendezvous with a larger, non-cooperative target satellite. Four types of tracking systems and their capabilities were reviewed with emphasis on 'low- technology' level and/or mobile systems which could be used by technologically unsophisticated state or non-state adversaries. With the tracking system architecture selected, simulated tracking data was processed with a non- linear least squares orbit determination filter to determine and/or update the target satellite's state vector.
Orbit Determination for a Microsatellite Rendezvous with a Non- Cooperative Target
2003
127 pages
Report
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Englisch
AIAA | 1967
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