An Efficient and Precise Method for Calculating the Dense Ephemeris of High Eccentricity Orbit

Abstract

Detection and cataloguing of space targets are an important issue for spacecraft safety. The large number of space targets makes the workload of orbit calculation very heavy. Being fast in calculation, the analytical method however cannot handle the processing of high-precision observational data. The numerical method on the contrary is good at the orbit determination for such targets. The cataloguing of space targets generally involves the production and calculation of dense ephemeris, for which an effective technique procedure that can calculate the orbit of High Eccentricity with both high accuracy and high efficiency has not yet formed, making the cataloguing difficult. In this paper, we propose a fast processing method that is suitable for the precise calculation of dense ephemeris for orbits with High Eccentricity, and optimize the parameters through numerical experiments. The superiority of the method is verified by examples.