Precise Positioning and Timekeeping in a Lunar Orbit via Terrestrial GPS Time-Differenced Carrier-Phase Measurements

K Iiyama, S Bhamidipati, G Gao - … : Journal of the Institute of Navigation, 2024 - navi.ion.org
… algorithm that adapts to the challenging lunar environment with weak gravity and strong third…
of a lunar satellite in an elliptical lunar frozen orbit and quasi-frozen low lunar orbit, wherein …

Simulation evaluation of moon transfer orbit navigation using gps carrier phases

M Murata, I Kawano, K Inoue - … of the 34th International Technical Meeting of …, 2021 - ion.org
… the HLS docked to the lunar gateway orbiting around the moon … addressed for accomplishing
the lunar exploration mission, … quality of the pseudo range and carrier phase. Following this …

Positioning and Timing of Distributed Lunar Satellites via Terrestrial GPS Differential Carrier Phase Measurements

K Iiyama, G Gao - Proceedings of the 36th International Technical …, 2023 - ion.org
lunar missions. We propose a relative positioning and timekeeping technique in lunar orbit
that leverages differential carrier phase … However, using GPS signals in the lunar orbit is …

Relative position determination of a lunar rover using the biased differential phase delay of same-beam VLBI

M Chen, QH Liu, YJ Wu, RB Zhao, ZQ Dai - Science China Physics …, 2011 - Springer
lunar rover using same-beam VLBI observations. The analysis indicated that the differential
phase delay between the lunar … plane-of-sky between the lunar rover and the lander, with an …

[PDF][PDF] Phase tracking approach for TDOA measurements in critical lunar spaceflights

W Hao, C Cheng, D Mo, Z Zhang… - Science China Information …, 2020 - scis.scichina.com
… So, recovering the carrier Doppler phase is the first key step in the adaptive phase recovery
… After carrier phase tracking and phasor stopping of each DOR tone at each station, the …

India's first lunar mission Chandrayaan-1 initial phase orbit determination

NV Vighnesam, A Sonney, NS Gopinath - Acta Astronautica, 2010 - Elsevier
… during Lunar Transfer and Lunar orbit phase. SMART-1 tracking data obtained during
selective periods were used to determine orbit solutions and to compare with orbit solutions …

Orbital filter aiding of a high sensitivity GPS receiver for lunar missions

V Capuano, P Blunt, C Botteron… - NAVIGATION: Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
… in our lab, specifically for lunar missions. In The Orbital Filter section, we describe the design
and implementation of our GPS-based orbital filter for lunar missions, which is based on an …

Exploring the design space of lunar GNSS in frozen orbit conditions

F Pereira, D Selva - 2020 IEEE/ION Position, Location and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… on stable lunar orbits by using the analytical theory derived by Nie and Gurfil [6] for frozen
orbitsphase measurements, similarly to the way GPS works, but we make no assumptions in …

Orbit improvement for Chang'E-5T lunar returning probe with GNSS technique

M Fan, XG Hu, G Dong, Y Huang, J Cao… - Advances in Space …, 2015 - Elsevier
… includes 4 orbital phases: the Earth high eccentric parking orbit, trans-lunar orbit, Lissajous
… The carrier phase data processing is underway and the relevant results are not analyzed in …

Applications of same-beam VLBI in the orbit determination of multi-spacecrafts in a lunar sample-return mission

QH Liu, M Chen, S Goossens, F Kikuchi… - Science China Physics …, 2010 - Springer
… (f) The orbit and the return unit dock in the lunar orbit The differential phase delay can be
obtained with a high accuracy of 1 mm level by using the same-beam VLBI observation among …