TRACKING ERROR PROPAGATION AND ORBIT PREDICTION PROGRAM,

Abstract

The report is a description of TEPOP (Tracking Error Propagation and Orbit Prediction Program), a rand-modified FORTRAN IV program used in the AFSC/ADC Joint Mission Analysis on Surveillance of Objects in Space. TEPOP simulates space-vehicle tracking data from as many as 54 sensors. Rand improvements: Sensors may be satellite-based, may rotate, may be limited in azimuth, elevation, and range; drag bias can be included; the JPL ephemeris tape is used; the program was converted to double-precision. Besides determining a target's path from real data, TEPOP can be used to generate synthetic data for objects orbiting earth, sun, moon, Mars, Venus, or Jupiter, or on an interplanetary course; to study the effects of introducing random and systematic errors; and to generate confidence regions for position and velocity. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1970
Accession Number
AD0711037

Entities

People

  • L. N. Rowell
  • Malcolm Smith
  • R. L. Mobley

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Satellites
  • Elevation
  • Ephemerides
  • Precision
  • Satellite Buses
  • Space Objects
  • Space Systems
  • Spacecraft
  • Spacecraft Components
  • Surveillance
  • Vehicles

Readers

  • Computer Science.
  • Radar Systems Engineering.
  • Space Exploration and Orbital Mechanics.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Orbital Debris
  • Space - Space Objects