Orbit Determination at the Royal Aircraft Establishment

Abstract

The paper describes the development of a series of computer programs for the orbit determination of earth satellites. The paper is based on the first of two lectures given at the ESRO summer school on Spacecraft Operations held at Gravenbruch, near Frankfurt, West Germany, in August 1970.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1970
Accession Number
AD0722586

Entities

People

  • Robert H. Gooding

Organizations

  • Royal Aircraft Establishment

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Aircrafts
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Cartesian Coordinates
  • Celestial Mechanics
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Convergence
  • Eccentricity
  • Equations
  • Equations Of Motion
  • Errors
  • Generators
  • Grids
  • Harmonics
  • Identification
  • Orbital Inclination

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Academic Conference Management
  • European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP).
  • Space Exploration and Orbital Mechanics.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Satellites