A Framework for Designing and Testing the Digital Signal Processing unit of a Pulsar Based Navigation System

Navigation systems using pulsar signals have been of great interest ever since the discovery of pulsars in 1967 and various studies were carried out ever since to determine the feasibility of such systems. The successful working of a navigation system using pulsar would mean that spacecraft can maneuver through the deep space with very little...

Fundamentals, Specifications, Architecture and Hardware Towards a Navigation System Based on Radio Pulsars

Pulsar based navigation is a novel area of research, and might once offer the possibility to man of safely traveling distances much beyond Earth. Recently, there has been work on a receiver tracking algorithm that makes use of X-ray pulsar signals. However, a system based on this would not find use on celestial bodies where an atmosphere blocks...