A GPS satellite is moving with a line of sight relative velocity of  3600m/s to a receiver.  What is the Doppler shift to the centre frequency caused by this movement on the L1 and L2 signals from the satellite at the receiver?

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A GPS satellite is moving with a line of sight relative velocity of  3600m/s to a receiver.  What is the Doppler shift to the centre frequency caused by this movement on the L1 and L2 signals from the satellite at the receiver?

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For the L1 signal, i got 18.905kHz instead of 18.905Hz

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