Flight performance analysis of GRACE K-band ranging instrument with simulation data |
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Authors: | Jeongrae Kim Seung Woo Lee |
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Institution: | aKorea Aerospace University, School of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Goyang City 412-791, Republic of Korea;bKorea Research Institute of Standards and Science, Division of Physical Metrology, Daejeon 305-340, Republic of Korea |
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Abstract: | A dual one-way ranging (DOWR) system provides very high accuracy range measurements between two satellites. The GRACE satellite mission implements the DOWR, called KBR (K-band ranging), to measure very small inter-satellite range change in order to map the Earth gravity field. The flight performance of the KBR is analyzed by using a hybrid software simulator that incorporates actual satellite orbit data into a comprehensive KBR simulator, which was earlier used for computing the GRACE baseline accuracy. Three types of experiments were performed. First is the comparison of the flight data with the simulated data in spectral domain. Second is the comparison of double differenced noise level. Third is the comparison of the range-rate difference with GPS clock estimates. The analysis shows a good agreement with the simulation model except some excessive high frequency noise, e.g. 10−4 m/√Hz at 0.1 Hz. The range-rate difference shows 0.003 cyc/s discrepancy with the clock estimates. These analyses are helpful to refine the DOWR simulation model and can be benefit to future DOWR instrument development. |
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Keywords: | Dual one-way ranging K-band ranging GRACE Inter-satellite ranging Gravity mapping |
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