Abstract Modern satellite ranging lasers emit short pulses at a low beam divergence and therefore require accurate satellite position predictions. To reach these accuracies the application of a Kalman filter orbit improvement technique has been investigated. Using laser observations acquired at only one groundstation the filter scheme provides real-time satellite position prediction updates, and also yields better predictions for subsequent passes over that station.
Kalman filter orbit improvement from Kootwijk laser range observations
Advances in Space Research ; 1 , 6 ; 79-82
1981-01-01
4 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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