Test of a GPS Receiver for the Navigation of Low Earth Orbit Spacecrafts

Rafael Lucas, G. Peuker, Manuel Martin-Neira

Abstract:	The Europeau Space Agency (ESA) has been devel- oping with ALCATFL-SEL (D) a GPS Receiver for Space Applications (Ref.1) to be used on-board the future BSA’s Low Barth Orbit Spacecrafts, mainly HERMES, the manned European space shuffle and the COLUMBUS Free-Plier Labora- tory. The receiver is a 64annel C/A code and can-&r trackiug, parallel receiver (see fig.1). A spe- dally qualified version of tbis unit will fly on the German ASTROSPAS platform, on-board the Shuttle STS-59 mission, scheduled for Spring, 1993. OnthispaperresultsofthefunctionalandqualiB- cation tests of the receiver are shown with empha- sis on the navigation performance of the uuit. Those tests have been pformed using a GPS MultWanuel Signal Simulator (Ref.2) where the dynamic conditions of a platform in a Low Barth Orbit trajectory have been reproduced.
Published in:	Proceedings of the 5th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GPS 1992) September 16 - 18, 1992 Albuquerque, NM
Pages:	853 - 862
Cite this article:	Lucas, Rafael, Peuker, G., Martin-Neira, Manuel, "Test of a GPS Receiver for the Navigation of Low Earth Orbit Spacecrafts," Proceedings of the 5th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GPS 1992), Albuquerque, NM, September 1992, pp. 853-862.
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