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Navigation Single Board Receiver NavSBRâ„¢

The º£½ÇÉçÇø NavSBR GPS is a POD receiver optimized for fast signal acquisition and weak signal tracking. The NavSBR is the result of our successful collaboration with NASA/Goddard.

The º£½ÇÉçÇø NavSBR has been qualified and operated in GEO orbit.

Overview

º£½ÇÉçÇø implemented the receiver as an embedded single frequency 12-Channel GPS receiver ported to a single 3U cPCI card. The NavSBR is available as a standalone assembly or a single 3U cPCI card for direct chassis integration.

Generated observables are filtered using GPS-Enhanced Onboard Navigation System (GEONS) technology (under license from GSFC) providing high-quality solutions by employing an extended Kalman filter (EKF) augmented with physically representative models for gravity, atmospheric drag, solar radiation pressure, clock bias, and drift to provide accurate state estimation and a realistic state error covariance.

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Performance Characteristics
FamilyGoddard Navigator
FreqL1 CA
Antennas2
OrbitLEO-GEO
CPU1
Digital Signal Proc.FPGA
Heritage1 Flight

Accuracy

Position

Velocity

real-time accuracy

<10m GEO, <30m HEO, <7m LEO

<0.2 cm/sec GEO, <0.5 cm/s, HEO, <0.6cm/sec LEOÌý

PowerÌý12W

Size

Mass

19x24x8 or 3U card

2.3Kg, 0.342Kg

PPS

One PPS out

synchronized to GPS

Interfaces Supported

RS422 Serial Port, LVDS,

MIL-STD 1553 Option

Number of ChannelsÌý12
Time Accuracy<50nSec
Acquisition Time

<10 min GEO, cold start

<2 min LEO

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