Self-Contained, High-Altitude Navigation System Study: PRAIS Navigation System. System Summary.

Abstract

Circuits to add a passive ranging capability to the Interferometric Landmark Tracker (ILT) to form a Passive Range Interferometer Sensor (PRAIS) were built and tested in the laboratory. The laboratory test data were used in a Monte Carlo simulation to demonstrate the performance of the PRAIS Navigation System in a highly eliptical orbit and a synchronous (1 deg inclination) orbit. Navigation accuracies better than 1000 ft and attitude accuracy better than 10 arcsec were indicated by the analyses. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1977
Accession Number
ADA038488

Entities

People

  • D. H. Aldrich
  • J. W. Simmons
  • N. F. Toda

Organizations

  • International Business Machines Corporation (Armonk, NY)

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Apogees
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Attitude Control Systems
  • Autonomous Navigation
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Corporations
  • Frequency Bands
  • High Altitude
  • Kalman Filters
  • Measurement
  • Monte Carlo Method
  • Navigation
  • Radar Pulses
  • Spacecraft
  • Statistical Analysis

Readers

  • Inertial Navigation Systems.
  • Space Exploration and Orbital Mechanics.

Technology Areas

  • Space