This book discusses autonomous spacecraft navigation based on X-ray pulsars, analyzing how to process X-ray pulsar signals, how to simulate them, and how to estimate the pulse’s time of arrival based on epoch folding.
The authors serve on the Flight Dynamics and Control Team at the National University of Defense Technology, which is one of the leading teams on X-ray pulsar-based navigation in China. They have been studying the theory and methodology of X-ray pulsar-based navigation since 2004.