Simulation of MPO orbit reconstruction using Doppler observations and comparison with laser altimetry observations

authored by

Alireza Hosseiniarani, Stefano Bertone, Daniel Arnold, Adrian Jäggi, Nicolas Thomas

Abstract

The BepiColombo Laser Altimeter (BELA) will fly on board the European Space Agency's BepiColombo Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO). In this study, we present the MPO orbit reconstruction based on Doppler data with different settings on the arc lengths, arcs initial conditions, dynamical model, observation mode and orbit determination process and we compare the results of the orbit reconstruction with laser altimetry observables at crossover points....

Organisation(s)

Institute of Geodesy
Institute of Production Engineering and Machine Tools
Institute of Theoretical Physics

Type

Abstract

Publication date

09.2018

Publication status

Published

 

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