COMMLARGO INC — National Aeronautics and Space Administration SBIR Phase I: A Communications, Navigation, and Networking reConfigurable Testbed (CoNNeCT) experiment i

COMMLARGO INC — SBIR Phase I award from National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Amount
$124,721
Agency
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Program / Phase
SBIR · Phase I
NAICS
Place of performance
FL
Period
2012-02-23 → 2012-08-23

Description

A Communications, Navigation, and Networking reConfigurable Testbed (CoNNeCT) experiment is proposed to improve the performance of GPS during geomagnetic storms. There are two primary sources of degradation during a geomagnetic event?loss of phase coherency by the receiver and abrupt path delay changes due to total electron content (TEC). By monitoring the degradation at the ISS instead of the Earth's surface, better modeling and subsequently better mitigation of the effects will be achieved. A scintillation-hardening receiver is proposed to improve the accuracy and reliability during geomagnetic storms.