A navigation system provides a significant level of protection against all
forms of interference or jamming to GPS in a cost-effective way. The
system employs a network of ground reference stations and Low Earth
Orbiting (LEO) satellites in conjunction with GPS. A common-view ranging
geometry to a GPS satellite is established that links a reference station
and a user. A second common-view geometry to a LEO satellite between the
same reference station and user pair is also established. The ground
stations synthesize real-time aiding signals by making carrier phase
measurements of GPS the LEO satellite signals. This aiding information is
transmitted via the LEO satellites to the user receiver at high power to
penetrate ambient jamming. The user receiver locks onto the carrier phase
of the LEO satellite, demodulates the aiding information, then applies
the carrier phase measurements and the aiding information to enable
extended coherent measurements of the GPS signals. The system thereby
recovers the GPS signals that would otherwise be lost to the jamming.