介绍下一代美国GRACE Follow-On和欧洲E.MOTION(Earth System Mass Transport Mission)卫星重力测量计划的研究进展,以期为我国下一代Post-GRACE卫星重力测量工程的成功实施提供参考依据。详细阐述了我国下一代Post-GRACE卫星重力测量工程的研究意义和科学目标,建议我国先期构建卫星精密定轨和卫星重力反演仿真模拟软件平台系统,开展重力卫星关键载荷误差分析研究,以及执行卫星重力测量任务需求。
The physical investigations on the accuracy improvement to the measurement of the Earth's gravity field recovery are carried out based on the next-generation Pendulum-A/B out-of-plane twin-satellite formation in this paper. Firstly,the Earth's gravity field complete up to degree and order 100 is, respectively, recovered by the collinear and pendulum satellite formations using the orbital parameters of the satellite and the matching accuracies of key payloads from the twin GRACE satellites. The research results show that the accuracy of the Earth's gravity field model from the Pendulum-A/B satellite formation is about two times higher than from the collinear satellite formation, and the further improvement of the determination accuracy of the Earth's gravity field model is feasible by the next-generation Pendulum-A/B out-of-plane twin-satellite formation. Secondly, the Earth's gravity field from Pendulum-A/B complete up to degree and order 100 is accurately recovered based on the orbital parameters of the satellite(e.g., an orbital altitude of 400 km, an intersatellite range of 100 km, an orbital inclination of 89?and an orbital eccentricity of 0.001), the matching accuracies of spaceborne instruments(e.g. 10-6m in the intersatellite range, 10-3m in the orbital position, 10-6m/s in orbital velocity, and10-11m/s2 in non-conservative force), an observation time of 30 days and a sampling interval of 10 s. The measurement accuracy of the Earth's gravity field from the next-generation Pendulum-A/B out-of-plane twin-satellite formation is full of promise for being improved by about 10 times compared with that from the current GRACE satellite formation. Finally,the physical requirements for the next-generation Pendulum-A/B out-of-plane twin-satellite formation are analyzed, and it is proposed that the satellite orbital altitude be preferably designed to be close to 400±50 km and the matching precision of key sensors from the Pendulum-A/B mission be about one order of magnitude higher than from the GRACE program.
