Improved Orbit Gravity Error Covariance for Orbit Determination

Schiemenz, F; Woodburn, J; Coppola, V; Utzmann, J; Kayal, H

Schiemenz, F (corresponding author), Airbus Def & Space GmbH, Space Syst, Claude Dornier Str, D-88090 Immenstaad, Germany.

JOURNAL OF GUIDANCE CONTROL AND DYNAMICS, 2020; 43 (9): 1671

Abstract

Optimal orbit determination requires physics-based process noise matrices to be taken into account when performing covariance propagation. For gravity......

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