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This paper points out, through numerical simulations and theoretical analysis, that poor satellite geometry leads to unintentional performance degradation of the Kalman filter with a conventional technique to prevent filter divergence. The conventional technique is to bump up process noise covariance, and causes unnecessary inflation of estimation-error covariance when satellite geometry is poor. We propose a novel choice of process noise covariance based on satellite geometry that can reduce such unnecessary inflation. 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