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Orbit determination

Index Orbit determination

Orbit determination is the use of a set of techniques for estimating the orbits of objects such as moons, planets, and spacecraft. [1]

33 relations: Andrea Milani (mathematician), C/2013 US10, Ceres (dwarf planet), CubETH, EELV Secondary Payload Adapter, Estimation theory, Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, Gauss' method, Geodetic Observatory Wettzell, GOES-16, Ground segment, Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System, Joint Space Operations Center, Kalman filter, Lambert's problem, Lexell's Comet, List of things named after Carl Friedrich Gauss, Meteor (satellite), Orbit-Vis, Orbital Mechanics for Engineering Students, Range rate, Satellite geodesy, Satellite laser ranging, Secondary payload, Summer Science Program, TRACE (computer program), Uncertainty parameter, (410777) 2009 FD, (486958) 2014 MU69, 2010 GZ60, 2015 YU9, 3200 Phaethon, 7835 Myroncope.

Andrea Milani (mathematician)

Andrea Milani Comparetti (born 1948) is an Italian mathematician and astronomer based at Pisa University interested in topics as celestial mechanics, asteroids, Near Earth Objects (NEO), and the BepiColombo mission.

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C/2013 US10

C/2013 US10 (Catalina) is an Oort cloud comet discovered on 31 October 2013 by the Catalina Sky Survey at an apparent magnitude of 19 using a Schmidt–Cassegrain telescope.

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Ceres (dwarf planet)

Ceres (minor-planet designation: 1 Ceres) is the largest object in the asteroid belt that lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, slightly closer to Mars' orbit.

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CubETH

CubETH is a Swiss satellite project.

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EELV Secondary Payload Adapter

The EELV Secondary Payload Adapter (ESPA) is a payload adapter ring for launching secondary payloads on EELV-class orbital launch vehicles.

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Estimation theory

Estimation theory is a branch of statistics that deals with estimating the values of parameters based on measured empirical data that has a random component.

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Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), nicknamed Tianyan (天眼, lit. "Heavenly Eye" or "The Eye of Heaven") is a radio telescope located in the Dawodang depression (大窝凼洼地), a natural basin in Pingtang County, Guizhou Province, southwest China.

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Gauss' method

In orbital mechanics (subfield of celestial mechanics), Gauss's method is used for preliminary orbit determination from at least three observations (more observations increases the accuracy of the determined orbit) of the orbiting body of interest at three different times.

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Geodetic Observatory Wettzell

The Geodetic Observatory Wettzell is located atop the 616 meter-high mountain Wagnerberg, west of the village Wettzell in the German district Cham in the Bavarian Forest.

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GOES-16

GOES-16, formerly known as GOES-R before reaching geostationary orbit, is the first of the GOES-R series of Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) operated by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), as well as the current operational geostationary weather satellite in the GOES East position at 75.2°W, providing a view centered on the Americas.

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Ground segment

A ground segment consists of all the ground-based elements of a spacecraft system used by operators and support personnel, as opposed to the space segment and user segment.

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Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System

The Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) with an operational name of NAVIC ("sailor" or "navigator" in Sanskrit, Hindi and many other Indian languages, which also stands for NAVigation with Indian Constellation) is an autonomous regional satellite navigation system, that provides accurate real-time positioning and timing services.

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Joint Space Operations Center

Joint Space Operations Center (JSpOC) is a command and control (C2) weapon system focused on planning and executing US Strategic Command's Joint Functional Component Command for Space (JFCC SPACE) mission.

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Kalman filter

Kalman filtering, also known as linear quadratic estimation (LQE), is an algorithm that uses a series of measurements observed over time, containing statistical noise and other inaccuracies, and produces estimates of unknown variables that tend to be more accurate than those based on a single measurement alone, by estimating a joint probability distribution over the variables for each timeframe.

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Lambert's problem

In celestial mechanics Lambert's problem is concerned with the determination of an orbit from two position vectors and the time of flight, solved by Johann Heinrich Lambert.

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Lexell's Comet

D/1770 L1, popularly known as Lexell's Comet after its orbit computer Anders Johan Lexell, was a comet discovered by astronomer Charles Messier in June 1770.

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List of things named after Carl Friedrich Gauss

Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855) is the eponym of all of the topics listed below.

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Meteor (satellite)

The Meteor spacecraft are weather observation satellites launched by the USSR and Russia.

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Orbit-Vis

Orbit-Vis is an orbit simulation program which is designed to allow users to simulate a satellite in any orbit around the Earth, and to give the user data on the position and motion of the satellite in both visual and numerical form.

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Orbital Mechanics for Engineering Students

Orbital Mechanics for Engineering Students is an aerospace engineering textbook by Howard D. Curtis, in its third edition.

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Range rate

Range rate defines a signed scalar value describing the time rate of change of the range (distance) between two locations.

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Satellite geodesy

Satellite geodesy is geodesy by means of artificial satellites — the measurement of the form and dimensions of Earth, the location of objects on its surface and the figure of the Earth's gravity field by means of artificial satellite techniques.

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Satellite laser ranging

In satellite laser ranging (SLR) a global network of observation stations measures the round trip time of flight of ultrashort pulses of light to satellites equipped with retroreflectors.

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Secondary payload

A secondary payload, also known as rideshare, is a smaller-sized payload transported to orbit on a launch vehicle that is mostly paid for—and with the date and time of launch and the orbital trajectory determined—by the entity that contracts and pays for the primary launch.

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Summer Science Program

The Summer Science Program (SSP) is an academic summer program where high school students experience college-level education and do research in celestial mechanics by studying the orbits of asteroids or biochemistry by studying the kinetic properties of enzymes.

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TRACE (computer program)

TRACE is a high-precision orbit determination and orbit propagation program.

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Uncertainty parameter

The uncertainty parameter U is a parameter introduced by the Minor Planet Center (MPC) to quantify concisely the uncertainty of a perturbed orbital solution for a minor planet.

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(410777) 2009 FD

(410777) 2009 FD is a carbonaceous sub-kilometer asteroid and binary system, classified as near-Earth object and potentially hazardous asteroid of the Apollo group, discovered on 24 February 2009, by astronomers of the Spacewatch program at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Arizona, in the United States.

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(486958) 2014 MU69

, previously designated and, and nicknamed Ultima Thule by the New Horizons team, is a trans-Neptunian object from the Kuiper belt located in the outermost regions of the Solar System.

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2010 GZ60

was originally estimated by JPL to be a two-kilometer-sized near-Earth asteroid.

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2015 YU9

, also known as and, is a sub-kilometer Hungaria asteroid from the inner region of the asteroid belt, approximately 350 meters in diameter.

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3200 Phaethon

3200 Phaethon (sometimes incorrectly spelled Phaeton), provisional designation, is an Apollo asteroid with an orbit that brings it closer to the Sun than any other named asteroid (though there are numerous unnamed asteroids with smaller perihelia, such as). For this reason, it was named after the Greek myth of Phaëthon, son of the sun god Helios.

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7835 Myroncope

7835 Myroncope, provisional designation, is a Mitidika asteroid from the central region of the asteroid belt, approximately 10 kilometers in diameter.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbit_determination

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