In-orbit Demonstration of X-Ray Pulsar Navigation with the <i>Insight</i>-<i>HXMT</i> <i>Satellite</i>
In-orbit Demonstration of X-Ray Pulsar Navigation with the <i>Insight</i>-<i>HXMT</i> <i>Satellite</i>
In this work, we report the in-orbit demonstration of X-ray pulsar navigation with Insight-Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (Insight-HXMT), which was launched on Jun. 15th, 2017. The new pulsar navigation method 'Significance Enhancement of Pulse-profile with Orbit-dynamics' (SEPO) is adopted to determine the orbit with observations of only one pulsar. In …