The Global Positioning System and its application in spacecraft navigation
Abstract
The paper presents an overview of the Global Positioning System (GPS) as well as a discussion of the user system parameters govering the design of a low-earth-orbit spacecraft GPS navigation system. A specific application, the Space Shuttle orbiter GPS navigation system, is discussed with particular attention given to its receiver/processor.
- Publication:
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Navigation Satellite Users
- Pub Date:
- 1979
- Bibcode:
- 1979nsu..proc..144V
- Keywords:
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- Communication Satellites;
- Global Positioning System;
- Navstar Satellites;
- Satellite Navigation Systems;
- Space Navigation;
- Telecommunication;
- Computer Systems Programs;
- Cost Analysis;
- Data Links;
- Error Analysis;
- Mission Planning;
- Onboard Equipment;
- Real Time Operation;
- Satellite-Borne Instruments;
- Space Commercialization;
- Space Shuttle Orbiters;
- Space Communications, Spacecraft Communications, Command and Tracking