A Software-Defined Spaceborne GNSS Receiver

This paper reports the design, proof-of-concept implementation and preliminary performance assessment of a lowcost, software-defined spaceborne GNSS receiver. The presented approach takes advantage of the flexibility of software-defined radio technology and the forthcoming availability of radiationhardened, space-certified Systems-on-Module to implement a fully customizable receiver with the capability to process GNSS signals in real-time and to deliver GNSS products in standard formats. The core GNSS engine is based on a free and open source software implementation of a multi-band, multi-system GNSS receiver released under the General Public License v3.0 and available in a public source code repository.Grant numbers : GNSS_IN_SPACE - GNSS Software-defined Space Receiver on Xilinx Zynq System-on-chIp (SoC).© 2018 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works