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Accession Number:
AD0607031
Title:
A METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE EFFECT OF DYNAMIC ERRORS OF A RADAR SATELLITE TRACKER ON ORBIT PREDICTION.
Corporate Author:
AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OHIO
Report Date:
1964-08-26
Abstract:
This thesis briefly discusses the difficulty of specifying the accuracy of a satellite tracker. Equations are developed which 1 determine azimuth and elevation angle data and fit them to fourth order time polynomials 2 compute the orbit parameters from evaluations of these polynomials and 3 evaluate the response of a selected tracker transfer function to the input of these time polynomials by the method of Laplace transformation. Orbit elements computed from this last evaluation are compared with the previous set to obtain the error in orbit prediction. A Fortran II program is presented which performs these computations on the IBM 7094 digital computer.
Descriptive Note:
Master's thesis,
Pages:
0201
File Size:
0.00MB