Subject: [IGSCB-16235]: Re: Proposal for new IGS station at DSN, Bylalu, Bangalore, India From: "Jayaraman.V" Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:45:27 +0530 To: igscb@igscb.jpl.nasa.gov CC: soma@istrac.org, gjdas@istrac.org Hi, I am V.Jayaraman, Deputy Project Director of the ISRO Regional Network Timing Facility (IRNWT) designed to support the Indian Regional National Navigational Satellite System(IRNSS). I am enclosing herewith a proposal for setting up the new IGS station in India which would be maintained by ISTRAC, ISRO to be named as DSNI. As the recievers are yet to be procured under this project for installation and operation,the site log details will be submitted in due course of time. At present GFZ is operating an IGS station at ISTRAC, Bangalore named as BAN2 station which is currently fully operational and maintatined by ISTRAC. All the required resources and funding are provided by Indian Space Research Organisation(ISRO)for installation and operation of the IGS stations at ISTRAC Request you to confirm the acceptance of this proposal and register the DSNI as station id for the proposed new IGS station for the naming purpose. Also provide the details of the action to be carried out, if there are any... for completing this registration process. With best regards/ Jayaraman.V ================================================================= V.Jayaraman, Scientist/Engr-SG, Deputy Project Director, IRNWT/IRNSS, ISTRAC/ISRO, Plot No: 12 & 13, 3rd Main, 2nd Phase, Peenya Industrial Area, Bangalore-560058, Karnataka State, INDIA Phone: (+91)-80-28094466, 80-28094453 Phone: (Res): (+91) -80-23206976 Mobile: (+91)-9448466976 Fax: (+91)-80-28094403 Email: jayaram@istrac.org ; jayaram@istrac.gov.in ; jayaram2k@gmail.com =================================================================================================== Application form for the Proposal of New IGS sites 1) Where is the station located? DSNI The IGS station will be located at ISRO's Deep Space Network (DSN) Facility at Bylalu, Bangalore, India, which is around 50 Km from Bangalore City on Bangalore-Mysore National Highway. DSN is housing the multiple Active Hydrogen Masers and Cesium clocks for the support of the Deep Space Mission network as well as Indian Regional Navigation Satellites. The DSNI is proposed to be co-located with the ISTRAC Precise Timing Facility, which will generate UTC (IRNWT) using the ensemble of atomic clocks and TAI time transfer from PTB, Germany. 2) Is the station currently operating, or planned? If planned, when is the projected date it will become operational? This station is proposed to be operational within 9 months i.e by fourth quarter of year 2008, subject to the approval from IGS. 3) What agencies are responsible for installing, managing, operating, and maintaining the station? ISRO Telemetry Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC), a unit of Indian Space Research Organisation, Bangalore, India. 4) What is the expected operational lifetime of the station? How secure is the funding? The station will continue indefinitely and will also have the adequate support provided from ISRO's on going projects and hence has secured funding for entire life time of the project. 5) Will the station replace an existing IGS station? If so, what is the scheduled date of decommissioning? Does the new station offer more capability than the old one? No. It is the new proposal and expected to offer more capabilities due to the availability of the data thro' Indian Space Science Data Center. 6) Does/will the station meets all of the strictly required IGS site guidelines (http://igscb.jpl.nasa.gov/network/guidelines/guidelines.html)? Yes, it will meet the IGS site guidelines. 7) What is the data delivery schedule? The data will be available to the world scientific community On-line thro' High bandwidth Internet access freely thro' standared access control procedures for the scientific research purpose. 8) Can you set the receiver for "all in view" tracking (including tracking of satellites set unhealthy)? Affirmative 9) Are there currently operating IGS stations within 1000km? Approximately how many? Does this site offer any capabilities the others do not? There are three stations viz 1) IISC, (which is currently not operational) in Bangalore, India. 2) BAN2 owned by GFZ and operated by ISTRAC at Bangalore, India currently Operational 3) NGRI at Hyderabad , India which is 700 Km away currently operational. 10) What IGS product or project will this site benefit, based on its location, instrumentation, and latency? All products of IGS will be made available and also will be used for IRNSS and other ISRO satellite missions support 11) Is this station intended to tie a national datum to the ITRF? To be decided 12) Is there a web page associated with this site (please specify)? If not, please include a site photo or two with this application. Currently no web site assiciated with these stations, however the details of the organisation supporting this station can be obtained thro' the following web sites http://www.isro.org, http://www.istrac.org 13) Is data available on a public server (please specify)? To be decided. However free data access will be provided thro' standard access control procedures as per ISRO data access policy. 14) The proposed four-character identifier should also be included, but it remains proposed only until confirmed by the CB. Allowed characters are A-Z and 1-9 (numerals may not be used in the first character). You may perform an initial check of the availability using http://sopac.ucsd.edu/scripts/checkSiteID.cgi. If the result is "available" it is certainly available. If this web page indicates it "may already be in use," it might be available for permanent stations anyway. DSNI 15) A new 4-char ID is required if a site is moved to a new monument. The 4-char ID has a one-to-one relationship with a monument, except in the case that more than one receiver records data from one antenna. DSNI ==================================================================