<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">The results of the ongoing monitoring of the position of geostationary telecommunication satellite Eutelsat-13B (13° East) are presented in the article. The results were obtained using a radio engineering complex (RC) of four stations receiving digital satellite television and a data processing centre. The stations are located in Kyiv, Mukachevo, Kharkiv and Mykolaiv.The equipment of each station allows synchronous recording (by the GPS) of fragments of DVB-S signal from the quadrature detector output of the satellite television receiver. Samples of the complex signal are archived and sent to the data processing center through the Internet. Here three linearly independent slant range differences (Δr) for three pairs of the stations are determined as a result of correlation processing of received signals. Every second measured values of Δr are used to calculate Cartesian coordinates (XYZ) of the satellite in the coordinate system WGS84 by multilateration method.The time series of Δr, <italic>X</italic>, <italic>Y</italic> and <italic>Z</italic> obtained during continuous observations from March to May 2015 are presented in the article. Single-measurement errors of Δr, <italic>X</italic>, <italic>Y</italic> and <italic>Z</italic> are equal to 2.6 m, 3540 m, 705 m and 455 m, respectively. The complex is compared with known analogues. Ways of reduction of measurement errors of satellite coordinates are considered.The radio engineering complex could be considered a prototype of a system of independent ongoing monitoring of the position of geostationary telecommunication satellites.</abstract>

The results of the ongoing monitoring of the position of geostationary telecommunication satellite Eutelsat-13B (13° East) are presented in the article. The results were obtained using a radio engineering complex (RC) of four stations receiving digital satellite television and a data processing centre. The stations are located in Kyiv, Mukachevo, Kharkiv and Mykolaiv.The equipment of each station allows synchronous recording (by the GPS) of fragments of DVB-S signal from the quadrature detector output of the satellite television receiver. Samples of the complex signal are archived and sent to the data processing center through the Internet. Here three linearly independent slant range differences (Δr) for three pairs of the stations are determined as a result of correlation processing of received signals. Every second measured values of Δr are used to calculate Cartesian coordinates (XYZ) of the satellite in the coordinate system WGS84 by multilateration method.The time series of Δr, X, Y and Z obtained during continuous observations from March to May 2015 are presented in the article. Single-measurement errors of Δr, X, Y and Z are equal to 2.6 m, 3540 m, 705 m and 455 m, respectively. The complex is compared with known analogues. Ways of reduction of measurement errors of satellite coordinates are considered.The radio engineering complex could be considered a prototype of a system of independent ongoing monitoring of the position of geostationary telecommunication satellites.

Results of the Ongoing Monitoring of the Position of a Geostationary Telecommunication Satellite by the Method of Spatially Separated Basis Receiving of Digital Satellite Television Signals

“Nikolaev Astronomical Observatory” Research Institute (RI NAO), 1 Observatorna Str., Mykolaiv, 54030,

Western Centre of Radio Engineering Surveillance (WCRES), Kosmonavtov Str., Mukachevo, 89612,

State Enterprise “Ukrkosmos”, 9 Boryspilska Str., Kyiv, 02099,

Institute of Radio Astronomy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 4 Chervonopraporna Str., Kharkiv, 61002,

Latvian Journal of Physics and Technical Sciences

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The results of the ongoing monitoring of the position of geostationary telecommunication satellite Eutelsat-13B (13° East) are presented in the article. The...

Results of the Ongoing Monitoring of the Position of a Geostationary Telecommunication Satellite by the Method of Spatially Separated Basis Receiving of Digital Satellite Television Signals

Published Online: Nov 19, 2016

Page range: 5 - 16

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/lpts-2016-0031

Keywords
Cartesian coordinates of geostationary satellites, DVB-S, radio interferometer

© 2016 F. Bushuev et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Results of the Ongoing Monitoring of the Position of a Geostationary Telecommunication Satellite by the Method of Spatially Separated Basis Receiving of Digital Satellite Television Signals

Published Online: Nov 19, 2016

Page range: 5 - 16

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/lpts-2016-0031

KeywordsCartesian coordinates of geostationary satellites, DVB-S, radio interferometer

© 2016 F. Bushuev et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Cartesian coordinates of geostationary satellites, DVB-S, radio interferometer