Session
Pre-Conference Workshop Session VII: Instruments/Science II
Location
Utah State University, Logan, UT
Abstract
Precise positioning, navigation, and timing requirements are driving a need for increasingly accurate spacecraft timing systems. This paper describes an experiment being developed at the University of Colorado Boulder to quantify the stability and behavior of a chip-scale atomic clock (CSAC) onboard an Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) University Nanosatellite Program (UNP-9) MAXWELL CubeSat mission. The CSAC experiment will run onboard MAXWELL, enabling the GPS receiver measurements to occur using the unsteered CSAC as an external clock. The experiment will record and downlink the position, clock bias, pseudorange, phase, and temperature. These data will allow us to characterize the on-orbit performance of the CSAC.
CSAC Flight Experiment to Characterize On-Orbit Performance
Utah State University, Logan, UT
Precise positioning, navigation, and timing requirements are driving a need for increasingly accurate spacecraft timing systems. This paper describes an experiment being developed at the University of Colorado Boulder to quantify the stability and behavior of a chip-scale atomic clock (CSAC) onboard an Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) University Nanosatellite Program (UNP-9) MAXWELL CubeSat mission. The CSAC experiment will run onboard MAXWELL, enabling the GPS receiver measurements to occur using the unsteered CSAC as an external clock. The experiment will record and downlink the position, clock bias, pseudorange, phase, and temperature. These data will allow us to characterize the on-orbit performance of the CSAC.
