Impact of the transponder configuration on the Asia-Europe TWSTFT network

Author

Fujieda, M. ; Maeno, H. ; Piester, D. ; Bauch, A. ; Yang, S.H. ; Suzuyama, T. ; Tseng, W.H. ; Huanxin, L. ; Gao, Y. ; Achkar, J. ; Rovera, D.

Author_Institution

Nat. Inst. of Inf. & Commun. Technol., Tokyo, Japan

fYear

2011

fDate

2-5 May 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Two-way satellite time and frequency transfer between Asia and Europe has been performed for many years first by a two-transponder and later by a one-transponder configuration on the IS-4 and the AM-2 satellites, respectively. A diurnal phase instability was observed in links established through IS-4, while such instability has not been observed when AM-2 was used. It could be shown that the diurnal variation are site-independent. An on-board path asymmetry due to the use of two transponders seems thus to cause it.

Keywords

frequency measurement; satellite links; time measurement; transponders; AM-2; AM-2 satellite; Asia-Europe TWSTFT network; IS-4; IS-4 satellite; diurnal phase instability; on-board path asymmetry; one-transponder configuration; two-way satellite time and frequency transfer; Asia; Delay; Global Positioning System; Laboratories; Satellites; Time frequency analysis; Transponders;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frequency Control and the European Frequency and Time Forum (FCS), 2011 Joint Conference of the IEEE International

Conference_Location

San Fransisco, CA

ISSN

1075-6787

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-111-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FCS.2011.5977786

Filename

5977786