Satellite Radio Monitoring Stations Observation Planning: Time Alignment Observation Algorithm

The rapid development of satellites constellations in low orbits lead to the increase in the number of spacecrafts. Thus, the problem arises of optimizing the planning of observations by ground stations. The mechanism of plan optimization is presented, the quality criterion is introduced, taking into account the total observation time of the spacecraft and the deviation of each spacecraft time from the mean value. A number of planning algorithms have been analyzed and modeled using the orbital data of operating spacecrafts. The results show the high quality of proposed method.