The Naval Space Command Automatic Differential Correction Process
Author
Danielson, D.A.
Canright, David
Perini, Deborah N.
Schumacher, Paul W. Jr.
Date
1993Metadata
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The Naval Space Command maintains a database of orbital elements for the
objects in the space catalog. This report is a documentation of the software
which inputs new observations of a satellite and its old element set and outputs a
new element set. Topics covered include: mathematics of batch least squares
differential correction process, definition of fit span and passes, calculation of
residuals and partials, inclusion of historical data, solution to normal equations,
iterations and tolerances.