A GPS receiver for high-altitude satellite navigation

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 541-556

  Winternitz, Luke M B ^a   Bamford, William A ^b   Heckler, Gregoy W ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b Emergent Space Technologies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Above the constellation; Global Positioning System (GPS); Global Precipitation Measurement Mission (GPM); Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS); Orion; Remote Navigation Sensor (RNS); Space; Weak signal

Indexed keywords

ABOVE-THE-CONSTELLATION; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENT MISSION (GPM); MAGNETOSPHERIC MULTISCALE MISSION (MMS); ORION; REMOTE NAVIGATION SENSOR (RNS); SPACE; WEAK-SIGNAL;

AIR NAVIGATION; EARTH (PLANET); GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; LUNAR MISSIONS; MAGNETOSPHERE; METHOD OF MOMENTS; NASA; ORBITS; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; SENSORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SPACE APPLICATIONS; SPACECRAFT;

SPACE FLIGHT;

EID: 68249151161     PISSN: 19324553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTSP.2009.2023352     Document Type: Article

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