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DLR’s Weilheim site
The ground station established in 1968 at Weilheim by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) is the communications link between Earth and satellites in orbit. With its help, it is possible to create a communications link with a satellite when it flies over that allows data to pass either way. |
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Site Weilheim  German Aerospace Center
Reichenbergstraße 8
82362 Weilheim
Phone: +49 8809 14-0
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Weilheim - News
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DLR scientists receive next-generation GPS signal for the first time
16 April 2009
The Global Positioning System (GPS) is to be modernised and will provide a navigation service that is even more reliable and accurate in the future. On 24 March, a GPS satellite carrying a special test payload for transmitting a new navigation signal in the L5 frequency band was launched. Shortly after the switching on of the test payload, scientists from the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) succeeded for the first time in receiving this navigation signal, using the 30-metre antenna at the German Space Operations Center (GSOC) in Weilheim. The scientists conducted a high precision analysis of the signal and proved, independently of the US operator, the additional benefits of the L5 signal. |
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