The Telecommunications and Data Acquisition Progress Report 42-116

October-December 1993

Joseph H. Yuen
Editor-in-Chief


February 15, 1994


National Aeronautics and
Space Administration

Jet Propulsion Laboratory
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California


Contents

Preface

OSC TASKS
DSN Advanced Systems
TRACKING AND GROUND-BASED NAVIGATION

Toward Astrometric Tracking With the Infrared Spatial Interferometer
R. N. Treuhaft, M. Bester, W. C. Danchi, and C. H. Townes
NASA Code 310-10-60-90-03

Line-of-Sight Tropospheric Calibration From Measurements in Arbitrary Directions
J. Z. Wilcox
NASA Code 310-10-60-93-01

Enhanced Orbit Determination Filter Sensitivity Analysis: Error Budget Development
J. A. Estefan and P. D. Burkhart
NASA Code 310-10-63-50-00

Enhanced Orbit Determination Filter: Inclusion of Ground System Errors as Filter Parameters
W. C. Masters, D. J. Scheeres, and S. W. Thurman
NASA Code 310-10-63-50-00

COMMUNICATIONS, SPACECRAFT-GROUND

Determining Noise Temperatures in Beam Waveguide Systems
W. Imbriale, W. Veruttipong, T. Otoshi, and M. Franco
NASA Code 310-20-65-86-08

A Dual-Cavity Ruby Maser for the Ka-Band Link Experiment
J. Shell and R. B. Quinn
NASA Code 310-20-66-87-02

The Rb 780-Nanometer Faraday Anomalous Dispersion Optical Filter: Theory and Experiment
B. Yin, L. S. Alvarez, and T. M. Shay
NASA Code 310-20-67-92-02

A Digital Combining-Weight Estimation Algorithm for Broadband Sources With the Array Feed Compensation System
V. A. Vilnrotter and E. R. Rodemich
NASA Code 310-30-70-89-01

Digital Combining-Weight Estimation for Broadband Sources Using Maximum-Likelihood Estimates
E. R. Rodemich and V. A. Vilnrotter
NASA Code 310-30-70-89-01

Convolutional Encoding of Self-Dual Codes
G. Solomon
NASA Code 314-30-71-83-02

DSN Systems Implementation
CAPABILITIES FOR EXISTING PROJECTS

Optimizing the Galileo Space Communication Link
J. I. Statman
NASA Code 314-30-61-02-01

Decoder Synchronization for Deep Space Missions
J. I. Statman, K.-M. Cheung, T. H. Chauvin, J. Rabkin, and M. L. Belongie
NASA Code 314-30-61-02-01

A Comparison of Full-Spectrum and Complex-Symbol Combining Techniques for the Galileo S-Band Mission
S. Million, B. Shah, and S. Hinedi
NASA Code 314-30-63-03-19

TOPEX/POSEIDON Operational Orbit Determination Results Using Global Positioning Satellites
J. Guinn, J. Jee, P. Wolff, F. Lagattuta, T. Drain, and V. Sierra
NASA Code 314-40-22-42-05

CAPABILITIES FOR NEW PROJECTS

Design and Implementation of a Hybrid Digital Phase-Locked Loop With a TMS320C25 - An Application to a Transponder Receiver Breadboard
H.-G. Yeh and T. M. Nguyen
NASA Code 315-91-10-13-08

A 32-GHz Microstrip Array Antenna for Microspacecraft Application
J. Huang
NASA Code 315-91-50-20-04

NETWORK UPGRADE AND SUSTAINING

Effects of Low Sampling Rate in the Digital Data-Transition Tracking Loop
A. Mileant, S. Million, and S. Hinedi
NASA Code 314-40-41-11-06

An Improved Conscan Algorithm Based on a Kalman Filter
D. B. Eldred
NASA Code 314-30-43-10-18

A Complex Symbol Signal-to-Noise Ratio Estimator and Its Performance
Y. Feria
NASA Code 314-30-61-02-10

X-Band Ultralow-Noise Maser Amplifier Performance
G. W. Glass, G. G. Ortiz, and D. L. Johnson
NASA Code 310-20-66-53-00

DSN Operations
GROUND COMMUNICATIONS IMPLEMENTATION AND OPERATIONS

Simulation of Interference Between Earth Stations and Earth-Orbiting Satellites
D. F. Bishop
NASA Code 315-90-31-00-02

Author Index, 1993


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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