Intercontinental Time and Frequency Transfer Using a Global Positioning System Timing Receiver

Abstract

The Deep Space Network (DSN) has a requirement to maintain knowledge of the frequency offset between DSN stations within 3 x 10-13 and time offset within 10 microseconds. It is further anticipated that in the 1987-1990 era the requirement for knowledge of time offset between DSN stations will be less than be less than 10 nanoseconds. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is using the Global Positioning System (GPS) Space Vehicles, as a development project , to transfer time and frequency over intercontinental distances between stations of the DSN and between the DSN and other agencies. JPL has installed GPS timing receivers at its tracking station near Barstow, CA and at its tracking station near Madrid, Spain.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1982
Accession Number
ADA497129

Entities

People

  • Philip A. Clements

Organizations

  • California Institute of Technology

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Clocks
  • Deep Space
  • Frequency
  • Information Operations
  • Jet Propulsion
  • Management Planning And Control
  • Measurement
  • Measuring Instruments
  • Scheduling (Production)
  • Standards
  • Time
  • Time Intervals

Readers

  • Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Technology.

Technology Areas

  • Space