The present invention belongs to the field of
aerospace technology, and relates to a method and
system for
orbit determination of a continuously small-thrust maneuvering
satellite by unscented
batch processing. The present invention obtains a
radar observation vector according to
radar measured data or
satellite ephemeris data in combination with the
radar station location coordinates; obtains the initial
orbit state at the moment to be estimated according to the radar observation vector and by using the Lambert
algorithm; generates an initial augmented state quantity according to the initial
orbit state at the moment to be estimated; constructs a simplified orbit dynamics equation including the non-spherical perturbation of the earth, the
atmospheric drag perturbation and the constant small-thrust acceleration in the RTN coordinate
system in the ECI coordinate
system; based on the simplified orbit dynamics equation, obtains the precise value of the augmented state quantity at the moment to be estimated through the initial augmented state quantity, the radar observation vector and the unscented
batch processing filtering method; and substitutes the precise value of the augmented state quantity at the moment to be estimated into the simplified orbit dynamics equation for
orbit prediction at other moments. The present invention significantly improves the
orbit determination accuracy and reduces the influence of single-point observation errors.