Orbit Determination of the Thermosphere, Ionosphere, Mesosphere, Energetics and Dynamics (TIMED) Mission Using Differenced One-way Doppler (DOWD)Tracking Data from the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS).
- Author:
- Blizzard, Michael
- Published:
- 2004.
- Physical Description:
- 1 electronic document
- Additional Creators:
- Asher, Mark, Showell, Avanaugh, Marr, Greg C., Maher, Michael, and Devereux, Will
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- Over an approximately 48-hour period from September 26 to 28,2002, the Thermosphere, Ionosphere, Mesosphere, Energetics and Dynamics (TIMED) mission was intensively supported by the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS). The TIMED satellite is in a nearly circular low-Earth orbit with a semimajor axis of approximately 7000 km and an inclination of approximately 74 degrees. The objective was to provide TDRSS tracking support for orbit determination (OD) to generate a definitive ephemeris of 24-hour duration or more with a 3-sigma position error no greater than 100 meters, and this tracking campaign was successful. An ephemeris was generated by Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) personnel using the TDRSS tracking data and was compared with an ephemeris generated by the Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Lab (APL) using TIMED Global Positioning System (GPS) data. Prior to the tracking campaign OD error analysis was performed to justify scheduling the TDRSS support.
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- NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Collection.
- Note:
- Document ID: 20040082147.
FMS-2003-25.
Flight Mechanics Symposium; 28-30 Oct. 2003; Greenbelt, MD; United States. - Terms of Use and Reproduction:
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