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This arrangement means from anywhere in India, GEO satellites appear as immovable high elv points the full constellation covers the primary service area with 100% availability of ≥4 satellites with just 7 sv. All satellites reside at the same ~35,786 km altitude.
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One minor tradeoff is there are no low-elevation satellites to triangulate vertical position. This yields
NavIC-standalone PDOP values of 3.3 to 6.2 versus GPS's ~1.5-2.5.
All you need to know about PDOP is, its a measure of quality and depends on satellite geometry.
NavIC-standalone PDOP values of 3.3 to 6.2 versus GPS's ~1.5-2.5.
All you need to know about PDOP is, its a measure of quality and depends on satellite geometry.
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The NVS-01/02 satellites add L1 (1575.42 MHz) using SBOC modulation (a composite
BOC variant), interoperable with GPS L1C and Galileo E1-OS.
Both NavIC freq travel ~35,786 km to the ground through the same atmosphere. 3layers matter: vacuum path, ionosphere, troposphere.
BOC variant), interoperable with GPS L1C and Galileo E1-OS.
Both NavIC freq travel ~35,786 km to the ground through the same atmosphere. 3layers matter: vacuum path, ionosphere, troposphere.
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Look back at the pseudorange equation, you can see them as the sources of error. Now, you can either use a model to estimate ionospheric and tropo electron activity or you can use a smart trick that NaviC does from its dual freq.
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S-band sees ~4.5× less ionospheric delay than L5. Over India's equatorial ionosphere, daytime TEC can spike to 60-100 TECU during solar max,
causing >1.7 m of L5 delay. India is also near equatorial ionospheric anomaly, where post-sunset plasma bubbles cause rapid signal fading.
causing >1.7 m of L5 delay. India is also near equatorial ionospheric anomaly, where post-sunset plasma bubbles cause rapid signal fading.
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The freq separation of NavIC ( ≈ 2.12) is much larger than GPS L1/L2 (≈ 1.28), making NavIC's iono-free combination ~1.79× less noise-amplifying than GPS L1/L2's (~2.98× amplification). And S-band's lower scintillation directly reduces cycle slips in PLL tracking
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If you measure pseudoranges on two frequencies f₁ and f₂, the iono delay scales differently on each, and you can use them to calculate that a IonoFree pseudorange which is independent of TEC. No model needed
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Free-space path loss scales as f², so S-band (2492 MHz) arrives at the receiver~6.5 dB weaker than L5 (1176 MHz) for equal transmit power. So the satellites transmits S-band at ~3.5 dB higher power
(~29.5 dBW vs ~26 dBW for L5), to compensate
(~29.5 dBW vs ~26 dBW for L5), to compensate
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Both the bands have their own characteristics and the NavIC receivers are made to receive both together and solve, but due to diff atmospheric events (and other things) you can have band specific degradation as well
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Both bands tracked -> iono-free combination, ~3-5 m accuracy
L5 only -> ~10-20 m
S-band only -> model fallback, raw S delay 4.5x smaller than L5
Neither -> satellite excluded from PVT for that epoch
L5 only -> ~10-20 m
S-band only -> model fallback, raw S delay 4.5x smaller than L5
Neither -> satellite excluded from PVT for that epoch
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There is a integrity flag in the navigation message signals whether dual-band correction is healthy for a given satellite, so the receiver always knows which
operating mode it is in.
operating mode it is in.
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So navic receivers must run two independent RF chains from two antenna port Each chain has its own LNA, BPF, downconverter, AGC, and ADC. It also means it can handle limited jamming if you jam a single band.
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And that is how navic works, a single clock creates messages and waves that travel >30000km to the surface of the earth and tell you where you are (and when you are) in real time.
Let me know if i made any errors, happy to correct
Let me know if i made any errors, happy to correct
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