Spacecraft orbit determination

Author: Military Training Textbook Work Committee of the General Equipment Department of the Chinese People's Liberation Army
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Publish Date: 2003-04-01
Features: This book focuses on satellites and artificial lunar satellites, starting from an engineering perspective, and introduces the celestial mechanics knowledge involved in the orbit determination process and the economically used orbit determination methods in China's spacecraft tracking and control engineering, following the computational workflow of orbit determination. The main content includes pre-processing of orbit measurement data, time and coordinate systems, initial orbit determination methods for spacecraft based on the two-body problem, major perturbing force models affecting spacecraft motion, approximate analytical and numerical solutions of perturbed motion equations, differential orbit improvement, and orbit prediction. Finally, the book also introduces the orbit determination methods for artificial lunar satellites. This book can serve as a reference for engineering technicians engaged in spacecraft tracking and control, and can also be used as a teaching reference for postgraduate students in related fields.