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.


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    Titel :

    Orbit Determination for a Microsatellite Rendezvous with a Non- Cooperative Target


    Beteiligte:
    B. L. Foster (Autor:in)

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2003


    Format / Umfang :

    127 pages


    Medientyp :

    Report


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch