European Complement to GPS: Main Experimental Results

Jacques Barbier, Muriel Deleuze, Jean-Luc Issler, Dominique Berges, Michel Brunet, Jean-FranGois Dutrey, Jean-Paul LefBvre, Norbert Suard, Thierry Tremas, Robert Tribes, Clet Yven, lsabelle Escank, Pierre Uhrich, Bertrand Juampan, Georges Frhon

Abstract:	Since the INMARSAT 3 navigation payload will soon be put into service, the RGIC systems (Ranging & GPS Integrity Channel) are about to become operational. In this field, the French Space Agency (CNES) has conducted an original RGIC project called the European Complement to GPS (CE-GPS). The CE-GPS system design brought out critical functions which required some experimentation : l the generation of a GPS-like signal at the output of a geostationary payload by servo-control from the ground, l the GPS time restitution, . the relative synchronization of the monitoring stations, l the orbit determination of the geosrationary and GPS satellites. The objective of this paper is to present the main results obtained with the different new techniques developed for the CE-GPS Experimentation. The paper is organized in three parts : first, the CE- GPS concept is presented; second, the experimental system designed by CNES to assess the CE-GPS technical performances is described; and last, the experimental results are presented.
Published in:	Proceedings of the 7th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GPS 1994) September 20 - 23, 1994 Salt Palace Convention Center Salt Lake City, UT
Pages:	995 - 1005
Cite this article:	Barbier, Jacques, Deleuze, Muriel, Issler, Jean-Luc, Berges, Dominique, Brunet, Michel, Dutrey, Jean-FranGois, LefBvre, Jean-Paul, Suard, Norbert, Tremas, Thierry, Tribes, Robert, Yven, Clet, Escank, lsabelle, Uhrich, Pierre, Juampan, Bertrand, Frhon, Georges, "European Complement to GPS: Main Experimental Results," Proceedings of the 7th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GPS 1994), Salt Lake City, UT, September 1994, pp. 995-1005.
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