Preliminary comparison between GPS and two-way satellite time transfer

Author

Klepczynski, W.J. ; Wheeler, P.J. ; Powell, W. ; Jeffries, J. ; Myers, A. ; Clarke, R.T. ; Hanson, W. ; Jespersen, J. ; Howe, D.

Author_Institution

US Naval Obs., Washington, DC, USA

fYear

1988

Firstpage

472

Lastpage

477

Abstract

The time scales of the US Naval Observatory in Washington, DC, and the Nation Bureau of Standards in Boulder, Colorado, were compared during the same time periods by the common view mode using the satellites of the Global Positioning System (GPS) and by the two-way mode using a US domestic communication satellite. Data collected over 3-month period showed residuals from a linear regression of 10 ns for the two-way technique and 30 ns for common-view GPS. The two-way technique achieved better than 500 ps of precision with less than 2 min of data

Keywords

artificial satellites; measurement standards; satellite relay systems; time measurement; Global Positioning System; Nation Bureau of Standards; US Naval Observatory; common view mode; communication satellite; linear regression; measurement standards; satellites; time measurement; time scales; two-way mode; two-way satellite time transfer; Artificial satellites; Clocks; Delay; Frequency synchronization; Global Positioning System; NIST; Observatories; Satellite ground stations; Timing; Transponders;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frequency Control Symposium, 1988., Proceedings of the 42nd Annual

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FREQ.1988.27642

Filename

27642