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http://dx.doi.org/10.20910/JASE.2018.12.1.10

GEO-KOMPSAT-2 Laser Ranging Time Slot Analysis  

Park, Bongkyu (Korea Aerospace Research Institute)
Choi, Jaedong (Korea Aerospace Research Institute)
Lee, Sang-Ryool (Korea Aerospace Research Institute)
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Journal of Aerospace System Engineering / v.12, no.1, 2018 , pp. 10-16 More about this Journal
Abstract
In 2018 and 2019, GEO-KOMPSAT-2A and GEO-KOMPSAT-2B will be launched in order to succeed the COMS mission. The two satellites will be collocated in $128.25{\pm}0.05$ degrees East. For precise ranging and orbit determination, the GEO-KOMPSAT-2B will be equipped with LRA (Laser Retroreflector Assembly) and SLR (Satellite Laser Ranging) systems will be utilized. This systems are located in Geochang. In this case, the laser beam emitted from the SLR station can cause problems in terms of safety of optical payloads and image quality. As a solution of this possibility, the laser ranging will be done during the night time when the shutters of the optical payloads remain closed. Still, the optical payload of the GEO-KOMPSAT-2A is not safe from the laser beam because its optical payload shall continue its mission for 24 hours a day. In order to handle this problem, the laser ranging shall be limited to time slots when the angular distance between two satellites observed from the Geochang SLR station is large enough. In this paper, through orbit simulations, the characteristics of variation of the angular distance between the two satellites is analyzed to figure out the time slots when laser ranging is allowed.
Keywords
GEO-KOMPSAT-2; Satellite Laser Ranging; Orbit Determination; Satellite Collocation;
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