• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to secondary sidebar
  • NEWS:
  • SatNews
  • SatMagazine
  • MilSatMagazine
  • SmallSat News
  • |     EVENTS:
  • SmallSat Symposium
  • Satellite Innovation
  • MilSat Symposium

SatNews

  • HOME
  • Magazines
  • Events
  • Perspectives
  • Industry Calendar
    • IN PERSON
    • VIRTUAL
  • Subscribe

Advantech Wireless Debuts Wide Area Augmentation System Satellite Frequency Converters  

April 26, 2020

The new class of Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) satellite frequency converter products from Advantech Wireless Technologies are designed to provide accurate GPS timing and position for critical applications such as air traffic control and aircraft precision landing — these products are compatible with the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay System (EGNOS).

This new line of products will extend the range of Advantech Wireless Technologies’ WAAS and EGNOS Satellite Frequency Converters to cover higher C-band, from 6.6 GHz and up to 7.075 GHz. They are projected to up convert and down convert L1 and L5 GPS signals to/from C-band GEO satellites in order to provide higher precision landing and timing for aircrafts and other critical applications.These frequency converters are designed to meet very stringent frequency stability requirements, exhibit very low phase noise, and experience no parametric drifting over time.


Cristi Damian

Cristi Damian, the company’s VP of Business Development, said that without EGNOS and WAAS systems, precision aircraft landing at our airports is basically impossible. This is a critical service carried out by GEO satellites to augment the GPS satellites’ constellations. A number of satellite master ground stations in North America and Europe provide these services by constantly calculating the errors due to GPS signals’ propagation effects and transmit compensated values to landing aircraft. Dependence on GPS services continues to grow and these systems need to operate continuously. With the lower C-band satellite spectrum now being allocated to 5G services, these frequency converters will allow WAAS and EGNOS services to easily be transported to higher C-band frequencies in the range of 6.6-7.025 GHz, with minimum CAPEX. GPS augmentation services carried by GEO satellites, are often unthought-of, but every day they avoid accidents, and save lives.

 

Filed Under: News

Primary Sidebar

Most Read Stories

  • CORRECTION: Blue Origin launches their 5th human spaceflight mission
  • neXat empowers affordable satellite internet for Indonesian businesses 
  • Satellogic is a finalist for “Company Award 2022” by the European Association of Remote Sensing Companies
  • UPDATE 6: Lunar Transfer Orbit achieved by Rocket Lab for the NASA CAPSTONE smallsat — 1st deep space mission success for the company
  • SES and Vodafone PNG to deliver 4G and 5G services to underserved areas in Papua New Guinea

About Satnews

  • Contacts
  • History

Archives

  • July 2022
  • June 2022
  • May 2022
  • April 2022
  • March 2022
  • February 2022
  • January 2022
  • December 2021
  • November 2021
  • October 2021
  • September 2021
  • August 2021
  • July 2021
  • June 2021
  • May 2021
  • April 2021
  • March 2021
  • February 2021
  • January 2021
  • December 2020
  • November 2020
  • October 2020
  • September 2020
  • August 2020
  • July 2020
  • June 2020
  • May 2020
  • April 2020

Secondary Sidebar

x
Sign up Now (For Free)
Access daily or weekly satellite news updates covering all aspects of the commercial and military satellite industry.
Invalid email address
Notify Me Regarding ( At least one ):
We value your privacy and will not sell or share your email or other information with any other company. You may also unsubscribe at anytime.

Click Here to see our full privacy policy.
Thanks for subscribing!