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- Title
Improving the Accuracy of the Martian Ephemeris Short-Term Prediction.
- Authors
Shan, Quan; Li, Peijia; Huang, Yong; Fan, Min; Li, Haitao; Hu, Xiaogong
- Abstract
The Chinese Mars exploration mission is planned to be launched in 2020, which includes an orbiter, a lander, and a rover. High precision Martian ephemeris is very important in Mars exploration, especially for the Martian orbit insertion and the Martian lander/rover landing. In this paper, we used simulation data to analyze the short-term prediction accuracy of the Martian ephemeris. The simulation results show that the accuracy of Mars position is expected to be better than 50 m for 180-day prediction, when 90-150 days’ range measurements are used to estimate the orbit of the Mars. Range bias affects the prediction accuracy and the arc length for estimation is limited. The prediction accuracy will improve with higher orbit, and the orbit error of probes has an obvious effect on the prediction accuracy of the Martian ephemeris.
- Subjects
MARTIANS; MARS (Planet); EPHEMERIS Time; COMPUTER simulation; PREDICTION models
- Publication
Advances in Astronomy, 2018, p1
- ISSN
1687-7969
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1155/2018/8949242