National Aeronautics and
Space Administration
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California
Contents Preface
DESCRIPTION OF THE DSN
Network Functions and Facilities
N. A. Renzetti
MISSION SUPPORT
Ongoing Planetary/Interplanetary Flight Projects
Viking Orbiter Completion Mission
R. L. Gillette
NASA Code 311-03-22-50
Pioneer Mission Support
G. M. Rockwell
NASA Code 311-03-22-80
RADIO ASTRONOMY
Radio Astronomy
R. M. Taylor
NASA Code 311-03-21-00
SUPPORTING RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY
Tracking and Ground-Based Navigation
Practical Limitations on Noiseless Optical Channel Capacity
S. A. Butman, J. Katz, and J. R. Lesh
NASA Code 310-10-60-12
Estimating the Angular Position of a Moving Deep Space Vehicle Using Two Rotating Tracking Stations
H. H. Tan
NASA Code 310-10-63-00
Validation of Roundtrip Charged-Particle Calibrations Derived From S- and X-Band Doppler via DRVlD Measurements
D. W. Green
NASA Code 310-10-60-09
Communications - Spacecraft/Ground
Operation of Joule-Thomson Refrigeration Above the Critical
Pressure of Helium
D. L. Johnson
NASA Code 310-20-66-09
Network Control and Data Processing
Feasibility Study of a Spacecraft Surveillance System
C. A. Greenhall
NASA Code 310-40-73-19
NETWORK AND FACILITY ENGINEERING AND IMPLEMENTATION
Network
The Practical Limits of Photon Communication
R. J. McEliece, E. R. Rodemich, and A. L. Rubin
NASA Code 311-03-43-20
An Evaluation Criteria Model for the Navigation Network
System Design
E. Hird
NASA Code 311-03-44-15
Tropospheric Path Length Fluctuation in Temperate Semiarid
Locales: Application to the Gravitational Wave Detection Experiment
A. L. Berman and S. D. Slobin
NASA Code 311-03-43-10
Ground Communications
GCF-NOCC Reconfiguration
J. P. McClure
NASA Code 311-06-30-00
OPERATIONS
Network Operations
Preliminary Telemetry Operations Experience With the Real-Time Combiner: 1 November 1978 to 1 November 1979
N. K. Simon and C. Hoynes
NASA Code 311-03-14-20
PROGRAM PLANNING
TDA Planning
Viterbi Decoding Modified for Sources With Memory
V. Korwar
NASA Code 311-03-31-30
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