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Old 29th Mar 2014, 22:03
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Vinnie Boombatz
 
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@hamster3null (#8555, 28 Mar 2014, 02:13)

Excellent spreadsheet!

The problem is made harder by having two sources of Doppler -- aircraft motion and satellite motion.

Even for a stationary satellite, the problem is still hard because of the unknown aircraft velocity vector orientation.

So all one can do is hypothesize a set of aircraft positions and velocities, and look for a decent fit to the measurements.

INMARSAT or AAIB must have done something quite similar.
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