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GNSS to reach the Moon

Capuano, Vincenzo  
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Botteron, Cyril  
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Tian, Jia  
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2014
65th International Astronautical Congress

Reaching the Moon poses very strict requirements in terms of performance, flexibility and cost for all the spacecraft subsystems. These requirements become more stringent if the mission is designed to be accomplished using a small satellite. The navigation subsystem is without any doubts essential and nowadays, several systems offer different solutions to the navigation problem. Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSSs) such as GPS, GLONASS, or the future Galileo and BeiDou systems, introduce an easier way to provide an autonomous on-board orbit determination system; they only require the realization and installation of an on-board GNSS receiver, with low-cost, low-power consumption and limited mass and volume. While GNSS receivers have been already exploited with success for Low Earth Orbit (LEO), their use for very High Earth Orbit (HEO) up to the Moon altitude is still at the research stage. In this context, the purpose of this research is to determine the potential achievable accuracy of a code-based GNSS receiver solution, during the whole trajectory to reach the Moon. GPS, Galileo, and GPS-Galileo combined (dual constellation) solutions are estimated, by considering constellations availability, pseudorange error factors and geometry factors. Unlike previous investigations, our study is making use of a very accurate multi- GNSS constellation simulator "Spirent GSS8000", which supports simultaneously the GPS and Galileo systems and the L1, L5, E1, and E5 frequency bands. The contribution of this study, based on the achieved results, clearly demonstrates that GNSS signals can be tracked at the Moon's surface, but not with the current GNSS receiver's technology for terrestrial use. A possible navigation solution we consider and discuss uses a double constellation GPS-Galileo receiver aided by external on board systems in order to improve the accuracy of the navigation solution and achieve the required sensitivity.

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conference paper not in proceedings
Author(s)
Capuano, Vincenzo  
Botteron, Cyril  
Tian, Jia  
Wang, Yanguang  
Leclère, Jérôme  
Farine, Pierre-André  
Date Issued

2014

Subjects

GNSS

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GPS

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Space Navigation

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Moon exploration

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high sensitivity

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NON-REVIEWED

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EPFL

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Event nameEvent placeEvent date
65th International Astronautical Congress

Toronto, Canada

October 2014

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January 28, 2015
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/110634
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