Comparison of Orbit Propagators in the Research and Development Goddard Trajectory Determination System (R D GTDS). Part I: Simulated Data

摘要

R&D GTDS is Draper Laboratory's research-based orbit determination testbed. This analysis tool evolved from its R&D counterpart at the Gooddard Space Flight Center. Dr. Paul Cefola, Program Manager at Draper Laboratory and Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has overseen the development and expansion of this testbed (by a team of scientists at Draper Laboratory and a continuing string of graduate students at MIT) over the past twenty years (see Fonte). In its current form, R&D GTDS is capable of performing...