A tracking station at latitude -200 and elevation 500 m makes the following observations of a satellite at the given times.
|
Time (min)
|
Local Sidereal Time (0)
|
Azimuth (0)
|
Elevation Angle (0)
|
Range (km)
|
|
0
|
60.0
|
165.931
|
9.53549
|
1214.89
|
|
2
|
60.5014
|
145.967
|
45.7711
|
421.441
|
|
4
|
61.0027
|
2.40962
|
21.8825
|
732.079
|
Use the Gibbs method to calculate the state vector of the satellite at the central observation time.