The Telecommunications and Data Acquisition Progress Report 42-106

April-June 1991

E. C. Posner
Editor


August 15, 1991

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National Aeronautics and
Space Administration

Jet Propulsion Laboratory
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California


Contents

Preface

OSO TASKS
DSN Advanced Systems
TRACKING AND GROUND-BASED NAVIGATION

Precise Orbit Determination of High-Earth Elliptical Orbiters Using Differenced Doppler and Range Measurements
J. A. Estefan
NASA Code 310-10-63-90-01

COMMUNICATIONS, SPACECRAFT-GROUND

Algorithms for Structural Natural-Frequency Design
R. Levy
NASA Code 310-20-65-86-04

Pattern-Recognition Techniques Applied to Performance Monitoring of the DSS 13 34-Meter Antenna Control Assembly
J. Mellstrom and P. Smyth
NASA Code 310-20-65-91-00

A Cooled l- to 2-GHz Balanced HEMT Amplifier
G. G. Ortiz and S. Padin
NASA Code 310-20-66-09-01

Performance of a High Tc Superconducting Ultra-Low Loss Microwave Stripline Filter
J. J. Bautista, G. Ortiz, C. Zahopoulos, S. Sridhar, and M. Lanagan
NASA Code 310-20-66-09-01

Equivalent Circuit Model of Traveling-Wave Maser Slow-Wave Structures
J. Shell
NASA Code 310-20-66-87-02

Spectral Filters for Laser Communications
K. Shaik
NASA Code 310-20-67-59-00

Design and Testing of an Active Quenching Circuit for an Avalanche Photodiode Photon Detector
D. Arbel and J. A. Schwartz
NASA Code 310-20-67-63-00

Analysis of a Multiple Reception Model for Processing Images From the Solid-State Imaging Camera
T.-Y. Yan
NASA Code 310-20-67-91-01

The Advanced Receiver II Telemetry Test Results at Goldstone
R. Sadr, R. Bevan, and S. Hinedi
NASA Code 310-30-70-84-02

Symbol Lock Detection in the ARX II and Block V Receivers
M. Shihabi, S. Hinedi, and B. Shah
NASA Code 310-30-70-84-02

Design and Status of the RF-Digitizer Integrated Circuit
B. Rayhrer, B. Lam, L. E. Young, J. M. Srinivasan, and J. B. Thomas
NASA Code 310-30-70-87-06

Channel Assignments and Array Gain Bounds for the Ka-Band Array Feed Compensation System
V. A. Vilnrotter
NASA Code 310-30-70-89-01

Coding Gains and Error Rates From the Big Viterbi Decoder
I. M. Onyszchuk
NASA Code 310-30-71-83-04

Testing Interconnected VLSI Circuits in the Big Viterbi Decoder
I. M Onyszchuk
NASA Code 310-30-72-88-01

STATION CONTROL AND SYSTEM TECHNOLOGY

Frame Error Rate of the NASA Concatenated Coding System
L. Swanson and K.-M. Cheung
NASA Code 310-30-71-83-04

Initial Pointing Calibrations for the DSS 13 34-Meter Beam-Waveguide Antenna
L. S. Alvarez
NASA Code 310-20-65-63-00

Modeling and Simulations of the DSS 13 Antenna Control System
W. Gawronski and J. Mellstrom
NASA Code 310-20-65-63-00

A Portable Ka-Band Front-End Test Package for Beam-Waveguide Antenna Performance Evaluation - Part I: Design and Ground Tests
T. Y. Otoshi, S. R. Stewart, and M. M. Franco
NASA Code 310-30-69-88-04

A Portable Ka-Band Front-End Test Package for Beam-Waveguide Antenna Performance Evaluation - Part II: Tests on the Antenna
T. Y. Otoshi, S. R. Stewart, and M. M. Franco
NASA Code 310-30-69-88-04

Efficiency Calibration of the DSS 13 34-Meter Diameter Beam Waveguide Antenna at 8.45 and 32 GHz
S. D. Slobin, T. Y. Otoshi, M. J. Britcliffe, L. S. Alvarez, S. R. Stewart, and M. M. Franco
NASA Code 310-30-69-88-04

DSS 13 Phase II Pedestal Room Microwave Layout
T. Cwik and J. C. Chen
NASA Code 310-30-69-91-05

DSN Systems Implementation
CAPABILITIES FOR EXISTING PROJECTS

A Carrier-Arraying Demonstration at Goldstone for Receiving Pioneer 11 Signals
T. T. Pham, M. K. Simon, T. K. Peng, M. H. Brockman, S. S. Kent, and R. Weller
NASA Code 314-40-41-11-06

CAPABILITIES FOR NEW PROJECTS

VLBI Data Performance in the Galileo Spacecraft Earth Flyby of December 1990
D. L. Gray
NASA Code 314-30-41-11-10

Carrier-to-Noise Power Estimation for the Block V Receiver
A. M. Monk
NASA Code 314-40-41-11-06

JPL 1999-3: A 5-nrad Extragalactic Source Catalog Based on Combined Radio Interferometric Observations
O. J. Sovers
NASA Code 314-30-43-20-52

Wideband Waveguide Polarizer Development for SETI
P. Lee and P. Stanton
NASA Code 314-30-69-40-06

DSN Operations
NETWORK OPERATIONS AND OPERATIONS SUPPORT

Stochastic Availability Analysis of Operational Data Systems in the Deep Space Network
T. N. Issa
NASA Code 314-40-21-30-02

TDA PROGRAM MANAGEMENT AND ANALYSIS

Modeling Preparation Costs for Space Missions by Using Major Cost Drivers
J. S. Sherif, D. S. Remer, and H. R. Buchanan
NASA Code 314-40-31-30-03

Referees


The research described in this publication was carried out by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Reference herein to any specific commercial product, service, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise, does not constitute or imply its endorsement by the United States Government or the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology.


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