The invention provides an optical formation
satellite orbit determination method and
system, and the method comprises the steps: S1, building a
kinetic model of a formation
satellite system according to the stress condition of a
satellite; the formation
satellite system is used for formation satellites; s2, acquiring an inter-satellite distance and an inter-satellite angle based on the
kinetic model; s3, establishing a state equation and an observation equation according to the inter-satellite distance and the inter-satellite angle; s4, carrying out
nonlinear transformation on the random variable to obtain a
nonlinear transformation result; carrying out statistical averaging on the
nonlinear transformation result, and then filtering to obtain an unbiased result; and S5, constructing an iterative forecasting equation based on the unbiased result, the state equation and the observation equation, and further determining the
orbit of the formation satellite. According to the method,
distance measurement and angle measurement information is utilized, the
orbit determination precision is improved, the principle is simple,
programming calculation is convenient, the method is suitable for the field of deep space formation
satellite orbit determination, and compared with traditional VLBI measurement, the
orbit determination precision is improved.