Two-Way Sequential Time Synchronization: Preliminary Results From the SIRIO-1 Experiment

B. Detoma, S. Leschiutta

Abstract:	A two-way time synchronization experiment was performed in the spring of 1979 and 1950 via the Italian SIRIO-1 experimental telecommunications satellite. The experiment was designed and implemented by the Istituto Elettrotecnico Nazionale, Torino (Italy), to precisely monitor the satellite motion and to evaluate the possibility of performing a high-precision, two-way time synchronization using a single communication channel, time-shared between the participating sites. The results of the experiment show that the precision of the time synchronization is between 1 and 5 ns, while the evaluation and correction of the satellite motion effect has been performed with an accuracy of a few nanoseconds or better over a time interval from 1 up to 20 seconds.
Published in:	Proceedings of the 12th Annual Precise Time and Time Interval Systems and Applications Meeting December 2 - 4, 1980 Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, Maryland
Pages:	329 - 350
Cite this article:	Detoma, B., Leschiutta, S., "Two-Way Sequential Time Synchronization: Preliminary Results From the SIRIO-1 Experiment," Proceedings of the 12th Annual Precise Time and Time Interval Systems and Applications Meeting, Greenbelt, Maryland, December 1980, pp. 329-350.
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