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SVLBI (space very long baseline interferometry) has some important potential applications in geodesy and geodynamics, for which one of the most difficult tasks is to precisely determine the orbit of an SVLBI satellite. This work studies several technologies that will possibly be able to determine the orbit of a space VLBI satellite. Then, according to the types and characteristics of the satellite and the requirements for geodetic study and the geometry of the GNSS (GPS, GALILEO) satellite to track the space VLBI satellite, the six Keplerian elements of the SVLBI satellite (TEST-SVLBI) are determined. A program is designed to analyze the coverage area of space of different altitudes by the stations of the network, with which the tracking network of TEST-SVLBI is designed. The efficiency of tracking TEST-SVLBI by the network is studied, and the results are presented.
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Funded by the National 973 Program of China (No. 2006CB701301), the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.40774007), and the Project of University Education and Research of Hubei Province (No.20053039).
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Wei, E., Liu, J., Kulkarni, M.N. et al. Design of geodetic SVLBI satellite orbit and its tracking network. Geo-spat. Inf. Sci. 11, 6–12 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11806-007-0160-7
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