Vol. 15, no.4, 2023
РусскийEnglish
RADIOELECTRONICS
METHOD FOR DETERMINING SPACECRAFT MOTION PARAMETERS BASED ON ULTRA-LONG-BASELINE RADIO INTERFEROMETRIC MEASUREMENTS
Igor L. Afonin, Alexander L. Polyakov, Yuri N. Tyschuk, Vladislav V. Golovin, Gennadiy V. Slyozkin
Sevastopol State Technical University,, http://www.sevsu.ru/
Sevastopol 299053, Russian Federetion
E-mail: igor_afonin@inbox.ru, AL_Polyakov@inbox.ru, y.tyschuk@gmail.com, v_golovin@mail.ru, g.slyozkin@mail.ru
Received August 14, 2023, peer-reviewed August 21, 2023, accepted August 28, 2023, published December 06, 2023.
Abstract: The proposed method for measuring current navigational parameters of spacecrafts makes it possible to control them to a certain extent using a single ground-based automated station. With this the following specifics of a single-station control are taken into account: location of spacecraft spatial-time monitoring stations, geometrical interpretation of these measurements, difficulties in processing of the received information and proper selection of radio equipment required for performing such measurements. The proposed method for trajectory tracking is based on the ultra-long-baseline interferometry. Measuring base here is the distance between a ground-based radio complex and onboard radio complex of the reference spacecraft that is constantly visible by the ground-based monitoring station. Onboard radio complex can include an array of spacecrafts traveling either along elongated elliptical orbit with an apogee height of more than twenty thousand kilometers or along a 36000 km high geostationary orbit. Application of the proposed method will help extend capabilities of the space monitoring system in terms of prompt clarification of public and private catalogues of spacecrafts orbiting the Earth.
Keywords: navigation, ballistic-navigational support, spacecraft, space source, radio system, trajectory tracking, radio interferometer
UDC 656.61.052:621.396
RENSIT, 2023, 15(1):367-376e DOI: 10.17725/rensit.2023.15.367
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