Research Article

Characteristics of Orbit Determination with Short-Arc Observation by an Optical Tracking Network, OWL-Net

Table 3

Orbit estimator setup and used perturbations.

PerturbationGravityEGM2008 (70 × 70)
Solid tide
Third bodySun and moon, planets
DragJB2008, spherical shape
SRPSpherical shape

EstimatorIntegratorRKF7(8)
FilterKalman filter
Initial uncertaintyRange: 50 m in-track: 100 m cross-track: 20 m