Coordinate and Time-frequency Support of a Spacecraft Flight by Means of Autonomic Navigation Using Sigma-point Kalman Filter Algorithm

There are investigated errors of a spacecraft current coordinate and velocity estimates, time-frequency scale bias of the board receiver reference oscillator. The receiver is a component of the autonomic navigation system using signals of global navigation systems GLONASS or GPS. Estimates are formed by the navigation calculator on the bases of pseudo range and pseudo velocity measurements taken in the regime of navigation signals delay and Doppler frequencies tracking under the condition of the receiver noise. The calculator utilizes sigma-point Kalman filter. Analysis of estimations accuracy is done by the Monte-Carlo method while spacecraft moves along a high elliptic orbit.