Definition of global earth monitoring satellite orientation, based on imaging data processing

Аuthors

Polosukhina K. A.

Company “Space special-purpose systems corporation “Kometa”, 5, Velozavodskaya str., Moscow, 115280, Russia

e-mail: kristy-p@mail.ru

Abstract

This article is about the method of local vertical construction, which is based on the satellite imaging data, for satellite of Global Earth Monitoring System that is placed on highly eccentric elliptical orbit. The main difference of proposed method from the traditional ways of satellite orientation is that it doesn’t demand for any special equipment, which determines the direction of the center of the Earth (i.e. construct the local vertical).

Keywords:

orientation; satellite sounding equipment; statistic characteristics; exactness calculating

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