GIOVE-A: The first step in the new era of multi-constellation satellite navigation user services
- Paper number
IAC-06-B3.P.6.01
- Author
Mr. Miguel Manteiga, European Space Agency (ESA)/ESTEC, The Netherlands
- Coauthor
Mr. Antonio Garutti, European Space Agency (ESA)/ESTEC, The Netherlands
- Coauthor
Mrs. Sonia Toribio, European Space Agency (ESA)/ESTEC, The Netherlands
- Coauthor
Mr. Giusseppe Mandorlo, European Space Agency (ESA)/ESTEC, The Netherlands
- Year
2006
- Abstract
The 28th of December 2005 and the 12th of January 2006 will be marked in history as the start of the second generation for satellite navigation user services. Those dates correspond to the launch and the first transmission of navigation signals of the GIOVE-A, the first satellite of the GALILEO European Navigation System.
In the following years the worldwide community will experiment an exponential increase in user services based on satellite navigation in all areas (maritime, aviation, mobile and navigation integrated services…).
The development of all these applications will be based on three main areas: the new generations of the GPS navigation system, the miniaturization of receiver technologies for their integration on portable equipments and the full deployment of the GALILEO system giving the navigation technologies a multi-constellation dimension and substantially increased performances for the user.
As part of the GALILEO development team, the paper will provide a unique insight in all these areas structured in three sections:
- GIOVE-A the first GALILEO spacecraft: In this section, the challenging GIOVE-A program will be explained. This spacecraft has been developed in a challenging 2-year timeframe, in order to secure the navigation frequencies allocated to Europe. The paper will describe the development and integration of the spacecraft, the launch campaign activities and the commissioning of GIOVE-A leading to the transmission of the first GALILEO signals. The authors will support the paper description with detailed data on the satellite architecture, photos and videos of the launch campaign and snapshots of the first signals as received by the combined receivers.
- GALILEO roadmap to the full operations capability: This section will describe the current status of the development and implementation of the 30-satellite constellation of GALILEO spacecrafts. The different milestones of the system up to its Operational Readiness Review will be presented together with a detailed description of the GALILEO constellation and the network of worldwide stations that will support the system.
- Multi-constellation navigation user services: Finally the third section will describe the first GALILEO-GPS combined receiver that was used to track the first GALILEO signals early this year. The paper will end with an extensive description of the wide range of user applications, as listed above, that are expected to appear in the next 5-10 years.
In summary the paper will give a complete overview on the most important achievement in satellite navigation systems since the GPS system became operational.
- Abstract document