摘要:The characteristics of the normal equation created in recovering the Earth gravity model (EGM) by least-squares (LS) adjustment from the in-situ disturbing potential is discussed in detail. It can be concluded that the normal equation only depends on the orbit, and the choice of a priori gravity model has no effect on the LS solution. Therefore, the accuracy of the recovered gravity model can be accurately simulated. Starting from this point, four sets of disturbing potential along the orbit with different level of noise were simulated and were used to recover the EGM. The results show that on the current accuracy level of the accelerometer calibration, the accuracy of the EGM is not sufficient to reflect the time variability of the Earth’s gravity field, as the dynamic method revealed.