🛰️ Session Overview
Overview of GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, and BeiDou. Signal structure, positioning accuracy, and augmentation systems (SBAS, RTK).
Deep space navigation techniques: optical navigation, radio ranging, pulsar-based positioning, and autonomous navigation for Mars missions.
📚 Presentations
Powerpoint-style browser deck: DSN, radio ranging, Doppler, Delta-DOR, OpNav, the OD loop, and trends in autonomous/pulsar/lunar navigation. 14 slides · embedded videos · built-in quiz.
▶ Launch Topic 1 DeckPowerpoint-style browser deck: GNSS constellations, pseudorange, error budget, SBAS/RTK/PPP, then altimetry cal/val with GNSS buoys. Includes GNSS-R, SWOT, and Galileo HAS. 14 slides · embedded videos · built-in quiz.
▶ Launch Topic 2 DeckSingle landing page with both presentations, learning outcomes, suggested readings, and the combined quiz launcher.
Open Lecture Hub🔑 Key Concepts
- 🛰️ Trilateration: Determining position from distances to multiple satellites
- 📡 Pseudorange: Measured distance using signal travel time
- 🌍 GDOP: Geometric Dilution of Precision and satellite geometry
- 🚀 Deep Space Network: NASA's interplanetary communication array
- ⭐ Pulsar Navigation: X-ray pulsar-based autonomous positioning