Precise Orbit Determination of Low Earth Satellites at AIUB using GPS and SLR data

Jäggi, Adrian; Bock, Heike; Thaller, Daniela; Sosnica, Krzysztof Jakub; Meyer, Ulrich; Baumann, Christian; Dach, Rolf (December 2013). Precise Orbit Determination of Low Earth Satellites at AIUB using GPS and SLR data. In: Papers from the ESA Living Planet Symposium 2013. Edinburgh, United Kingdom. 09.-15.12.2013.

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An ever increasing number of low Earth orbiting (LEO)
satellites is, or will be, equipped with retro-reflectors for
Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR) and on-board receivers
to collect observations from Global Navigation Satellite
Systems (GNSS) such as the Global Positioning Sys-
tem (GPS) and the Russian GLONASS and the European
Galileo systems in the future. At the Astronomical Insti-
tute of the University of Bern (AIUB) LEO precise or-
bit determination (POD) using either GPS or SLR data is
performed for a wide range of applications for satellites at
different altitudes. For this purpose the classical numeri-
cal integration techniques, as also used for dynamic orbit
determination of satellites at high altitudes, are extended
by pseudo-stochastic orbit modeling techniques to effi-
ciently cope with potential force model deficiencies for
satellites at low altitudes. Accuracies of better than 2 cm
may be achieved by pseudo-stochastic orbit modeling for
satellites at very low altitudes such as for the GPS-based
POD of the Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circula-
tion Explorer (GOCE).

Item Type:

Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)

Division/Institute:

08 Faculty of Science > Institute of Astronomy

UniBE Contributor:

Jäggi, Adrian, Bock, Heike, Thaller, Daniela, Sosnica, Krzysztof Jakub, Meyer, Ulrich, Baumann, Christian (B), Dach, Rolf

Subjects:

500 Science > 520 Astronomy

Series:

ESA Special Publications

Language:

English

Submitter:

Pierre Fridez

Date Deposited:

11 Jul 2014 11:24

Last Modified:

29 Mar 2023 23:33

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.45809

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/45809

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