Satnews Daily
February 20th, 2013

Spectracom... Bringing Beidou Into The Picture (Simulators)


[SatNews] Spectracom, a business of the Orolia Group (NYSE Alternext Paris – FR0010501015 – ALORO) has upgraded its capability to...

...China’s global navigation satellite system, Beidou. The Spectracom GSG Series 5 and Series 6 GNSS simulators, released last year, are designed to be field upgradeable to simulate current and future GNSS constellations. GSG simulators are capable of outputting the frequencies, modulations and data formats of anticipated GNSS systems. The recent release of the Beidou ICD specification has confirmed that Spectracom simulators will be able to simulate these satellites with a simple field-upgradeable firmware update.

The Series 5 single frequency simulator is fully capable of the all the signals in the L1 (GPS and GLONASS) / E1 (Galileo) / B1 (Beidou) band, including all the GLONASS FDMA satellites.

The Series 6 multi-frequency simulator is fully capable of all four bands of all the systems: L1 / E1 / B1; L2 / L2C; L5 /E5 /B2; and E6 / B3.