MODIFICATIONS TO THE GOODING ALGORITHM FOR ANGLES-ONLY INITIAL ORBIT DETERMINATION Conference Paper

abstract

• The Gooding algorithm is currently the most widely used angles-only method for estimating the orbit of a spacecraft. Two modifications to Gooding's angles-only initial orbit determination algorithm are presented. The first method is an extension to N measurements, whereas the state of the art algorithm is restricted to three measurements. The second modification is an optimization method which searches in the neighborhood of the output of the classical Gooding algorithm for a more optimal orbit estimation. The theory is developed and examples are given.

authors

• Mortari, Daniele

published proceedings

• SPACEFLIGHT MECHANICS 2010, PTS I-III

author list (cited authors)

• Henderson, T. A., Mortari, D., & Davis, J.

complete list of authors

• Henderson, Troy A||Mortari, Daniele||Davis, Jeremy

publication date

• December 2010

published in

• Spaceflight Mechanics 2005, Vol 120, Pts 1 and 2  Journal

International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 13

• 978-0-87703-560-2

start page

• 2031

end page

• +

volume

• 136