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GPS M-code Testing

Testing M-Code Enabled GPS Receivers

What are the key validation and deployment issues of M-code GPS receivers?

On September 25, 2005 the US Air Force launched GPS satellite IIR-14M into orbit, carrying a modernized navigation payload with additional military and civil signals. For authorized military users, M-code will improve immunity to interference and enhanced security. M-code will be the primary signal used by the US military once the full constellation is operational.

Spirent Solves Your Critical Test Challenges.

Spirent offers a variety of M-code test capabilities in compliance with ICD-GPS-700A:

• M-Noise-Spectrally equivalent M-code modulation to test its effects on tracking and acquisition for legacy L1/L2 signals and the new L2C (available as standard with Spirent GSS8000 series simulators).
• Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) M-Code- Enables authorized users to test M-code functions using commercial encryption algorithm (SimMCODE).
• M-Code Simulator Data Sets (SDS)- Enables authorized users to replay M-code data sets for MNSA security algorithm testing. Spirent Federal is the first company to offer M-code SDS approved by the GPS Wing.

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