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Orbits of Geostationary TV Satellites

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Andrzej Drożyner
Andrzej Drożyner*
Affiliation:
Institute of Astronomy, Nicholas Copernicus University Toruń, Poland

Abstract

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In the frame of European cooperation among some stations (Brussels, Praha, Cagliari, Torino, Penc, Borowiec, Teddington, Metsahovi, Besançon and San Fernando) the method of time comparisons by a TV link has been used for orbit determination of the Eutelsat-F2 satellite. Observational stations are equipped with commercial TV receivers and high stability time services. The technique of observations is based on the registration of arrival times of synchronous pulses broadcast by the satellite. For this type of observations a special orbital software package (TOP-COGEOS) has been developed, which allows the determination of the dynamical state of the satellite and some additional parameters connected to applied observational technique.

Type
Dynamics of Artificial Satellites and Space Debris
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 165: Dynamics and Astrometry of Natural and Artificial Celestial Bodies , 1997 , pp. 347 - 350
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1997

References

Drożyner, A.: 1995, “Determination of orbits with the Torun orbit processor system”, Adv. Space Res. 16, 12.Google Scholar