Beyond Gravity geostationary navigation receiver set for space
Beyond Gravity has delivered a geostationary navigation receiver to Maxar ready for launching into geostationary orbit.
This will be the first receiver from Beyond Gravity ((formerly RUAG Space) in geostationary orbit after the launch in early 2023
The GEORIX transceiver precisely determines a satellite’s position in orbit. Maxar installed GEORIX on Intelsat-40e, a geostationary communications satellite. Intelsat-40e is hosting NASA’s climate payload called Tropospheric Emissions Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO).
TEMPO is a UV-visible spectrometer that will detect pollutants by measuring sunlight reflected and scattered from the Earth’s surface and atmosphere. The resulting data from TEMPO will be used to enhance air-quality forecasts in North America, enabling the more effective early public warning of pollution incidents.
Rather than build a dedicated spacecraft to host the payload, built by Ball Aerospace, NASA partnered with Maxar to host it on Intelsat 40e. GEORIX will help TEMPO determine where it is in orbit as it measures atmospheric gases.
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“This will be the first time that a Beyond Gravity navigation receiver will fly in geostationary orbit, around 36’000 kilometers away from Earth,” said Anders Linder, EVP Division Satellites at Beyond Gravity. “The more precisely the position that NASA’s TEMPO can be determined by GEORIX, the more precise the climate data TEMPO can provide.” Currently, around 30 navigation receivers from Beyond Gravity determine the position of satellites in low-Earth orbit (about 2’000 kilometers from Earth).
Intelsat-40e and TEMPO will launch in early 2023 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
www.beyondgravity.com/en/satellites/platform-electronics
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