Satellite-Ground Two-Way Measuring Method and Performance Evaluation of BDS-3 Inter-Satellite Link System

From November 2017 to December 2018, Beidou navigation satellite system (BDS) completed the basic system construction of Beidou-3 system (BDS-3) and opened the initial service, BDS-3 satellites are equipped with Ka-band inter-satellite link (ISL) payloads, satellite autonomous orbit determination (OD) and time synchronization (TS) can be realized through ISL technology. At present, 18 BDS-3 medium earth orbit (MEO) satellites have been formally networked, and a series of ground-satellite link (GSL) test and connection test of Ka-band ISL signals are carried out, through the test, the working state and functional performance of the ISL payloads can be evaluated. This article focuses on the GSL measurements and performance evaluation of the ISL signals of BDS-3, the basic architecture of the GSL test platform is given, the principle of Ka-band GSL measurement and basic data processing methods and performance evaluation methods are introduced. Obtained the GSL observation data of 18 BDS-3 MEO satellites using the Ka-band ground station of the National Time Service Center (NTSC), and evaluate the performance of the GSL ranging and time synchronization. The result shows that GSL ranging accuracy of 18 MEO satellites is better than 0.02m and GSL time synchronization accuracy is better than 0.2ns. Thus, this meets the requirements of ISL system. The assessment methods and analysis results presented in this article can provide the reference of the function and performance verification for inter-satellite link system, and provide technical and data accumulation for the time synchronization extension application based on ISL signals.

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