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We present the motivation, the envisioned solution together with the constraints for reaching it, and the best potential sensitivity of the location precision for different (1) deployment scenarios of the femto-satellite, (2) precisions in the location of the CubeSats, and (3) precisions in each CubeSat\u2019s Attitude Determination and Control Systems (ADCS). We implemented a simulation tool to evaluate the average performance for different random scenarios in space. For the evaluated cases, we found that the Cram\u00e9r-Rao Bound (CRB) for Gaussian noise over the small error region of the solution is highly dependent on the deployment direction, with differences in the location precision close to three orders of magnitude between the best and worst deployment directions. For the best deployment case, we also studied the best location estimation that might be achieved with the current Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and ADCS commercially available for CubeSats. We found that the mean-square error (MSE) matrix of the proposed solution under the small error condition can attain the CRB for the simulated time, achieving a precision below 30 m when the femto-satellite is separated by around 800 m from the mother-CubeSat.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14051101","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,2,24]],"date-time":"2022-02-24T21:11:07Z","timestamp":1645737067000},"page":"1101","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":13,"title":["A Femto-Satellite Localization Method Based on TDOA and AOA Using Two CubeSats"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4361-0557","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mat\u00edas G.","family":"Vidal-Valladares","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Space and Planetary Exploration Laboratory (SPEL), Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, University of Chile, Santiago 8370448, Chile"},{"name":"Electrical Enginering Department, Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, University of Chile, Santiago 8370451, Chile"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7701-5839","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Marcos A.","family":"D\u00edaz","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Space and Planetary Exploration Laboratory (SPEL), Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, University of Chile, Santiago 8370448, Chile"},{"name":"Electrical Enginering Department, Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, University of Chile, Santiago 8370451, Chile"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,2,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1965","DOI":"10.1109\/TUFFC.2018.2855085","article-title":"Long-term behavior of the DORIS oscillator under radiation: The Jason-2 case","volume":"65","author":"Belli","year":"2018","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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