Abstract
The orbital maneuvers of the global navigation satellite system (GNSSs) have a significant influence on the performance of the precise positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) services. Because the Chinese BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) has three types of satellites in the geostationary orbit (GEO), inclined geosynchronous orbit (IGSO), and medium earth orbit (MEO) maneuvers occur more frequently. Thus, it is essential to determine an effective approach for the detection of orbital maneuvers. This study proposes a method for the detection of orbital maneuvers using epoch-differenced carrier phase observations and broadcast ephemeris data. When using the epoch-differenced velocity estimation as a basic data solution model, the time discrimination and satellite identification factors are defined and used for the real-time detection of the beginning and the pseudorandom noise code (PRN) of satellites. The datasets from four GNSS stations (WUH1, BJF1, POHN, CUT0) from the year 2016 were collected and analyzed. The validations showed that the beginning, the PRN of the orbital maneuver of the satellite can be precisely detected in real time for all GEO, IGSO, and MEO satellites, and the detected results also showed good consistency, with the beginning time at a difference of 1–2 min across different stations. The proposed approach was observed to be more sensitive, and the detected beginning time was about 30 min earlier than the single point positioning approach when the high-precision carrier phase observation was used. Thus, orbital maneuvering can be accurately detected by the proposed method. It not only improves the utilization of the collected data but also improves the performance of PNT services.
Highlights
The BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) was developed and constructed independently by China, and can provide precise positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) services
As the test results show that the standard deviation (STD) of the observation residual is more sensitive than the mean square error of unit weight (MSE), we used the STD of the observation residual for the detection of orbital maneuvers in this study
This study proposed an approach for the real-time detection of orbital maneuvering using carrier phase observations and broadcast ephemeris data by velocity estimation
Summary
The BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) was developed and constructed independently by China, and can provide precise positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) services. Qiao et al studied the Beidou satellite maneuver thrust force estimation, and Dai et al analyzed the precise orbit determination for the GNSS maneuvering satellite [17]. Based on this background, this work proposes an approach for the determination of orbital maneuvers in real time using high-precision carrier phase observations by epoch-differenced velocity estimation, validated by BDS data. The proposed method can be operated in real time by a station-alone receiver and does not need any additional data information or the orbit force mode As it uses high-precision carrier phase observations, the detection of orbital maneuvers is more sensitive and rapid. The approach is validated and applied for BDS datasets
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