Calibration of Onboard Equipment for Measuring Pseudo-Range Between Spacecraft to Improve the Accuracy of Determining Their Time Scales Discrepancy

Technologies for range-finding measurements between spacecraft are increasingly used in achieving the targets of modern spacecraft. The stability of the systematic error is one of the main factors affecting the accuracy of achieving a target. This determines the requirement to ensure the stability of the systematic error at the level of several centimeters in the presence of destabilizing factors and a tendency to increase the spacecrafts active life in orbit. Apart from searching for methods implemented directly in the onboard equipment, it is advisable to consider mathematical methods that are applicable at the stage of processing measurements when achieving the spacecraft targets. The paper describes the technology for determining and accounting for calibration corrections for spacecraft onboard radio-technical equipment intended for range-finding measurements and exchanging information between spacecraft. This technology is based on statistical processing of residuals of linear combinations of measured parameters relative to their high-precision calculated analogs, obtained using a posteriori ephemeris-time information. The use of this technology makes it possible to compensate for the change in the constant component of the systematic measurement error at the stage of spacecraft operation in orbit.

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