Navigation accuracy guidelines for orbital formation flying

Journal of the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 207-219

  Russell Carpenter, J ^a   Alfriend, Kyle T ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MISSION CONFIGURATION; MISSION NAVIGATION; NAVIGATION ACCURACY; NAVIGATION ERRORS; ACCURATE PREDICTION; MISSION CONFIGURATIONS; PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT; PRELIMINARY DESIGN; RELATIVE NAVIGATION; SATELLITE FORMATIONS; SOURCES OF UNCERTAINTY; ELLIPTICAL ORBITS; NAVIGATION ERROR; ORBIT PLANES; ORBIT SHAPES; ORBITAL ELEMENT; ORBITAL FORMATIONS; ORBITAL PERIODS; SEMIMAJOR AXIS; STATE ESTIMATES; STATION-KEEPING;

ERROR ANALYSIS; MANEUVERABILITY; ORBITS; SATELLITES; NAVIGATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; ERRORS; TOOLS;

NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; ORBITS; NAVIGATION;

EID: 33645364940     PISSN: 00219142     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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