The Interplanetary Network Progress Report 42-153

January-March 2003

Joseph H. Yuen
Editor in Chief


May 15, 2003

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National Aeronautics and
Space Administration

Jet Propulsion Laboratory
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California


Contents

Preface

Direct-to-Earth Communications and Signal Processing for Mars Exploration Rover Entry, Descent, and Landing
E. Satorius, P. Estabrook, J. Wilson, and D. Fort

Frequencies for Mars Local High-Rate Links
D. Hansen, M. Sue, T. Peng, and F. Manshadi

The JPL Optical Communications Telescope Laboratory Test Bed for the Future Optical Deep Space Network
K. E. Wilson, N. Page, J. Wu, and M. Srinivasan

Cost and Performance Comparison of an Earth-Orbiting Optical Communication Relay Transceiver and a Ground-Based Optical Receiver Subnet
K. E. Wilson, M. Wright, R. Cesarone, J. Ceniceros, and K. Shea

The Guruswami-Sudan Decoding Algorithm for Reed-Solomon Codes
R. J. McEliece

Techniques for Onboard Prioritization of Science Data for Transmission
R. Castano, R. C. Anderson, T. Estlin, D. DeCoste, F. Fisher, D. Gaines, D. Mazzoni, and M. Judd

Solar Corona Amplitude Scintillation Modeling and Comparison to Measurements at X-Band and Ka-Band
D. Morabito

Control System of the Beam-Waveguide Antenna Subreflector: Current Performance and Proposed Upgrades
W. Gawronski and A. Sehic


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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