ASTRA: Interdisciplinary study on enhancement of the end-to-end accuracy for spacecraft tracking techniques

Proceedings of the International Astronautical Congress, IAC

Volumn 5, Issue , 2012, Pages 3425-3435

  Iess, Luciano ^a   Budnik, Frank ^b   Colamarino, Claudio ^c   Corbelli, Alberto ^d   Di Benedetto, Mauro ^a   Fabbri, Valentino ^d   Graziani, Alberto ^e   Hunt, Rob ^f   James, Nick ^f   Lanucara, Marco ^b   Maddè, Roberto ^b   Marabucci, Manuela ^a   Mariotti, Gilles ^e   Mercolino, Mattia ^b   Racioppa, Paolo ^a   Simone, Lorenzo ^c   Tortora, Paolo ^e   Westcott, Mark ^f   Zannoni, Marco ^e  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (France)

^c THALES ALENIA SPACE ITALIA   (Italy)

^d ALMASpace Srl ^*  (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^f BAE SYSTEMS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEEP SPACE MISSIONS; INTER-DISCIPLINARY STUDIES; MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; OPERATIONAL CONDITIONS; ORBIT DETERMINATION; ORBIT DETERMINATION SYSTEM; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; SYSTEM CONFIGURATIONS;

BUDGET CONTROL; NASA; SPACE FLIGHT; STATISTICAL TESTS; TRACKING (POSITION);

RADIO NAVIGATION;

EID: 84883509877     PISSN: 00741795     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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