The Telecommunications and Data Acquisition Progress Report 42-107

July-September 1991

E. C. Posner
Editor


November 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

A Receiver Design for the Superconducting Cavity-Maser Oscillator
R. T. Wang and G. J. Dick
NASA Code 310-10-62-34-00

COMMUNICATIONS, SPACECRAFT-GROUND

Suppressed Carrier Full-Spectrum Combining
D. H. Rogstad
NASA Code 310-30-70-56-01

A Comparison of the Fractal and JPEG Algorithms
K.-M. Cheung and M. Shahshahani
NASA Code 310-30-71-83-02

A Minimalist Approach to Receiver Architecture
O. Collins
NASA Code 310-30-70-18-00

Determinate-State Convolutional Codes
O. Collins and M. Hizlan
NASA Code 310-30-71-83-02

Some Partial-Unit-Memory Convolutional Codes
K. Abdel-Ghaffar, R. J. McEliece, and G. Solomon
NASA Code 310-30-71-87-02

STATION CONTROL AND SYSTEM TECHNOLOGY

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

A Proposed Far-Field Method for Frequency-Stability Measurements on the DSS 13 Beam-Waveguide Antenna
T. Y. Otoshi
NASA Code 310-30-69-91-22

DSN Systems Implementation
CAPABILITIES FOR NEW PROJECTS

The L/C-Band Feed Design for the DSS 14 70-Meter Antenna (Phobos Mission)
P. H. Stanton and H. R. Reilly, Jr.
NASA Code 314-30-64-70-03

NETWORK UPGRADE AND SUSTAINING

Mark IVA Antenna Control System Data Handling Architecture Study
H. C. Briggs and D. B. Eldred
NASA Code 314-40-41-91-69

DSN Operations
TDA PROGRAM MANAGEMENT AND ANALYSIS

Expected Antenna Utilization and Overload
E. C. Posner
NASA Code 055-40-01-00-96

OS0 Cooperative Tasks
TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY COMMUNICATION STUDIES

Trajectory and Navigation System Design for Robotic and Piloted Missions to Mars
S. W. Thurman and S. E. Matousek
NASA Code 316-30-19-41-06

OSSA Tasks
SEARCH FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE

A 640-MHz 32-Megachannel Real-Time Polyphase-FFT Spectrum Analyzer
G. A. Zimmerman, M. F. Garyantes, M. J. Grimm, and B. Charny
NASA Code 108-30-30-40-01

Polyphase-Discrete Fourier Transform Spectrum Analysis for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Sky Survey
G. A. Zimmerman and S. Gulkis
NASA Code 108-30-30-40-04

The Behavior of Quantization Spectra as a Function of Signal-to-Noise Ratio
M. J. Flanagan
NASA Code 108-30-30-40-01


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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