TerraSAR-X BlackJack Receiver Software Development and Testing

Status: Current project, April 2006 -- December 2008
Type: Space Flight Mission Support

This task provides critical flight software development and testing for the TerraSAR-X BlackJack GPS receiver. The work is being performed at the University of Texas at Austin's GPS Lab at the Center for Space Research.

TerraSAR-X is a German public-private partnership satellite designed to take radar images of the Earth.  The satellite is scheduled for launch in October 2006.  For more information about TerraSAR-X, see the link:  http://www.caf.dlr.de/tsx/start_en.htm .

The University of Texas at Austin has been contracted to make software modifications to the BlackJack GPS receiver provided by Broad Reach Engineering.  Additionally, UT-Austin is performing testing, flight certification, and on-orbit support and analysis for the GPS receiver.  The project is affiliated with UT-Austin's GPS Research Lab.

Personnel Key-Rok Choi Glenn Lightsey Jacob Williams

Facility GPS Lab UT Center for Space Research Austin, TX, 78712

Related Publications

Conference Papers
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Jacob Williams, E. Glenn Lightsey, SungPil Yoon, Robert E. Schutz, "Testing of the ICESat BlackJack GPS Receiver Engineering Model,"  ION GPS Conference, September 24-27, 2002.

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Conference Presentations
Key-Rok Choi and E. Glenn Lightsey, "Total Electron Content (TEC) Estimation Using GPS Measurements Onboard TerraSAR-X", ION NTM 2008, Jan 28-30, San Diego.See full text.

Other

Oliver Montenbruck, Jacob Williams, Tena Wang, E. Glenn Lightsey.  "Preflight Validation of the IGOR GPS Receiver for TerraSAR-X,"  DLR-GSOC GTN-TST-0200; Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Oberpfaffenhofen. May 2, 2005.

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K5 Simulation 08/2007
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Research Reports

TerraSAR-X User Guide

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