Technical assessment of satellites for CONUS air traffic control Volume III: satellite-to-aircraft techniques

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• Creators:
  Lee, H. B. ; Goode, B. B.
• Corporate Creators:
  Lincoln Laboratory
• Corporate Contributors:
  John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.) ; United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Aviation Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Air traffic control
  • Navigational satellites
  • General aviation aircraft
  • Avionics
  • Antennas
  • Data communications
  • Computer programming
  • Air traffic control
  • Surveillance
  • Navigation
  More +
• Publication/ Report Number:
  DOT/TSC-RA-3-8-3 ; ATC-26 Volume III ; PB237239
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  Lincoln Laboratory
• Description:
  A number of satellite system techniques have been suggested as candidates to provide ATC surveillance, communication, and/or navigation service over CONUS. All techniques determine the aircraft positions by multilateration based on the arrival times of signals transmitted between the aircraft and the satellites. The techniques can be categorized as follows: (1) Coordinated Aircraft-to-Satellite Techniques (CAST), (2) Random Access Aircraft-to-Satellite Techniques (RAST), (3) Satellite-to-Aircraft Techniques (SAT). This three-volume report is a technical assessment of all three techniques. The present volumes examines satellite-to-aircraft techniques (SAT). The remaining two volumes treat CAST and RAST. The assessment has shown that workable systems could be configured using any one of the three techniques without reliance on high risk technology. No one technique has emerged as superior. Rather several viable alternatives have been identified. All techniques appear to require more costly avionics than today's ground-based system.
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  DOT/TSC-RA-3-8
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/12131/dot_12131_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.72 MB]
• Collection(s):
  Volpe Center
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:4f372bff5fdc3d4f71135386d1161e34f672e7cf95eb0cca37de1b8bb1f053c2