Satellite & Space Missions

Biography

Aravind Gundakaram is a student of Mahindra University pursuing his bachelor’s degree in Computation and Mathematics. His understanding of the mathematical model together with the implementation skills of his team allow them to come up with high precision mathematical models and also effective implementations for the said models. The current satellite orbit propagator presented in the said paper, namely the Satellite Ephemeris Determiner (SED) is the result of over two years of consistent work from the entire team, and guidance from several people working in the industry. The mathematical model in this paper has been built of after a thorough review of existing orbit propagator models and the results obtained from them. Moreover, the very high cost of the popular High Precision Orbit Propagator (HPOP) served as further motivation for the team to develop their own propagator SED, that is equivalent to HPOP. In the future, the team aims to make further advancements in the field and enhance SED to handle the three-body problem as well, so that it can outperform HPOP. 

Abstract

Abstract : Mathematical modelling and numerical solution for high precision satellite ephemeris determination