Develop the ability to analyze guidance and navigation systems for space missions, including their interaction with control systems and other vehicle subsystems. Use of surveillance technologies for monitoring, preventing, and removing space debris. Assessment of the impact of environmental disturbances on the evolution of complex orbital systems (e.g., megaconstellations, debris clouds, formations) and ensuring the sustainability of space traffic.
Study of tracking systems of a spacecraft, with a particular focus on deep space missions. Presenting ground and on-board radio tracking system. Analysis of Doppler and ranging measurements, implementation, and definition of error budgets. Angular measurements in deep space with the Delta Differential One-way Ranging (DDOR) technique.
Astrodynamics recap: Propagation of coordinates and parameters, orbital perturbations, relative motion, and low-thrust maneuvers.
Space debris: Orbital evolution and dynamics of a debris.
Guidance techniques: Principles and applications.
Overview of GPS and its functionality.
Orbit determination: Techniques and methods for calculating and refining satellite orbits.
Ground and on-board radio tracking systems
Doppler measurements and error budget
Range measurements: Sequential ranging and Pseudo-Noise ranging
Delta Differential One-way Ranging (DDOR): Angular measurements in deep space
"Fundamentals of Aerospace Navigation and Guidance", edited by Pierre T. Kabamba, Anouck R. Girard. Cambridge University Press, October 2014