Spacecraft design impacts on the post-Newtonian parameter estimation

This work gives insight into the impact of a perihelion power constraint on the achievable accuracy of the PNP in a nonmetric, preferred-frame theory. By simulating Mercury Planetary Orbiter's (MPO) orbit and using the square root information filter (SRIF) method for the parameter estimation in terms of minimum least square fitting, knowledge covariance evolution along with the best estimates for ...