An evaluation of solar radiation pressure strategies for the GPS constellation |
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Authors: | Ant Sibthorpe Willy Bertiger Shailen D Desai Bruce Haines Nate Harvey Jan P Weiss |
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Institution: | 1.Jet Propulsion Laboratory,California Institute of Technology,Pasadena,USA |
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Abstract: | The subtle effects of different Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite force models are becoming apparent now that mature
processing strategies are reaching new levels of accuracy and precision. For this paper, we tested several approaches to solar
radiation pressure (SRP) modeling that are commonly used by International GNSS Service (IGS) analysis centers. These include
the GPS Solar Pressure Model (GSPM; Bar-Sever and Kuang in The Interplanetary Network Progress Report 42-160, 2005) and variants of the so-called DYB model (Springer et al. in Adv Space Res 23:673–676, 1999). Our results show that currently observed differences between GPS orbit solutions from the various IGS analysis centers
are in large part explained by differences between their respective approaches to modeling SRP. DYB-based strategies typically
generate orbit solutions that have the smallest differences with respect to the IGS final combined solution, largely because
the DYB approach is most commonly used by the contributing analysis centers. However, various internal and external metrics,
including ambiguity resolution statistics and satellite laser ranging observations, support continued use of the GSPM-based
approach for precise orbit determination of the GPS constellation, at least when using the GIPSY-OASIS software. |
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