Experimental Results of Using the GPS for SFU Onboard Navigation

Tsutomu Ichikawa, Keiken Ninomiya, Susumu Kumagai and Masaki Mistutake

Abstract:	SFU ( Space Flyer Unit ) satellite has been launched by H- II booster on the 18th March 1995. This satellite will rendezvous dock on a space shuttle and return to earth after cruising circular orbit during about nine or ten months. In the point of navigation , it is one of characteristic to carried GPS receiver which we has been developed several years ago. -This paper describe the outline of onboard GPS receiver configuration and functions, and the first experimental results of it’s behavior and performance. This GPS receiver is having function of two modes. The one is geometric position determination using four Navstars signal directly, which does not consider the dynamics of the satellite. The other is orbit estimation with using onboard Extended Kalman filter algorithm.
Published in:	Proceedings of the 8th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GPS 1995) September 12 - 15, 1995 Palm Springs, CA
Pages:	573 - 577
Cite this article:	Ichikawa, Tsutomu, Ninomiya, Keiken, Kumagai, Susumu, Mistutake, Masaki, "Experimental Results of Using the GPS for SFU Onboard Navigation," Proceedings of the 8th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GPS 1995), Palm Springs, CA, September 1995, pp. 573-577.
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