Time Aspects of the European Complement to GPS: Continental and Transatlantic Experimental Phases

P. Uhrich, B. Juompan, R. Tourde, M. Brunet, J-F. Dutrey

Abstract:	The CNES project of a European Complement to GPS [CE-GPS] is conceived to fulfill the needs of Civil Aviation for a non-precise approach phase with GPS as sole navigation means. This generates two missions: a monitoring mission - alarm of failure -, and a navigation mission - generating a GPS-like signal on board the geostationary satellites. The host satellites will be the Inmarsat constellation. The CE-GPS missions lead to some time requirements, mainly the accuracy of GPS time restitution and of monitoring clock synchronization. To demonstrate that the requirements of the CE-GPS could be achieved, including the time aspects, an experiment has been scheduled over the last two years, using a part of the Inmarsat 11 F-2 payload and specially designed ground stations based on 10 channels GPS receivers. This paper presents a review of the results obtained during the continental phase of the CE-GPS experiment with two stations in France, along with some experimental results obtained during the transatlantic phase (three stations in France, French Guyana, and South Africa). It describes the synchronization of the monitoring clocks using the GPS Common-view or the C- to L-Band transponder of the Inmarsat satellite, with an estimated accuracy better than 10 ns (1 u).
Published in:	Proceedings of the 26th Annual Precise Time and Time Interval Systems and Applications Meeting December 6 - 8, 1994 Hyatt Regency Reston Town Center Reston, Virginia
Pages:	153 - 165
Cite this article:	Uhrich, P., Juompan, B., Tourde, R., Brunet, M., Dutrey, J-F., "Time Aspects of the European Complement to GPS: Continental and Transatlantic Experimental Phases," Proceedings of the 26th Annual Precise Time and Time Interval Systems and Applications Meeting, Reston, Virginia, December 1994, pp. 153-165.
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