High Resolution Ranging Experiment using the Time Comparison Equipment

摘要

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) intend many positioning experiments to obtain basic satellite positioning system technology using the Engineering Test Satellite-Ⅷ(ETS-Ⅷ). The NICT developed the on-board Time Comparison Equipment (TCE) and was carried out experiment of time transfer of the time difference between on-board standards and the ground reference clocks intermitting. This paper describes experimental principle and result of ranging between the satellite and the ground station using time transfer data.