Technical Report 32-1526, Volume XII

The Deep Space Network Progress Report

For September and October 1972


December 15, 1972

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National Aeronautics and
Space Administration

Jet Propulsion Laboratory
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California


Contents

Preface

DESCRIPTION OF THE DSN

DSN Functions and Facilities
N. A. Renzetti

MISSION SUPPORT

Interplanetary Flight Projects

Helios Mission Support
P. S. Goodwin
NASA Code 311-03-21-50

Planetary Flight Projects

Mariner Venus/Mercury 1973 Mission Support
E. K. Davis
NASA Code 311-03-21-60

Viking Mission Support
D. J. Mudgway
NASA Code 311-03-21-70

SUPPORTING RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY

Tracking and Ground-Based Navigation

X-Band Radar Development
C. P. Wiggins
NASA Code 310-10-64-01

X-Band Uplink Microwave Components
H. R. Buchanan
NASA Code 310-10-64-03

RF Properties of the 64-m-Diameter Antenna Mesh Material as a Function of Frequency
T. Y. Otoshi
NASA Code 310-20-66-02

An Analysis of System Performance Under the Severe Weather Conditions at Goldstone, December 1971
M. S. Reid
NASA Code 310-20-66-02

Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) Possibilities for Lunar Study
M. A. Slade, P. F. MacDoran, and J. B. Thomas
NASA Code 310-10-60-50

Determination of the Helios Spacecraft Attitude by Polarization Measurement
B. D. Mulhall
NASA Code 310-10-60-52

Phase-Stable, Low-Phase-Noise Filters for Reference Signals
G. F. Lutes
NASA Code 310-10-62-03

Complex Mixer Error Analysis
R. Winkelstein
NASA Code 310-10-62-04

Communications, Spacecraft/Ground

Excessive Shaft Friction Variation Corrected by Lubricant Change
H. McGinness
NASA Code 310-20-65-02

Frequency Generation and Control: Atomic Hydrogen Dissociator
H. Erpenbach and D. Norris
NASA Code 310-10-62-01

Improved RF Calibration Techniques - A Practical Technique for Accurate Determination of Microwave Surface Resistivity
R. Clauss and P. D. Potter
NASA Code 310-20-66-02

PARADES Structural Design System Capabilities
R. Levy and R. Melosh
NASA Code 310-20-65-01

Improved RF Calibration Techniques: Commercial Precision IF Attenuator Evaluation
C. Stelzried, B. Seidel, M. Franco, and D. Acheson
NASA Code 310-20-66-02

Improved RF Calibration Techniques: System Operating Noise Temperature Calibrations
M. S. Reid
NASA Code 310-20-66-02

Optimum Noncoherent Receiver at Low Signal-to-Noise Ratio for Unknown Doppler Shifted Signals
J. K. Holmes
NASA Code 310-20-67-03

Optimum Frame Sync Acquisition for Biorthogonally Coded Telemetry
B. K. Levitt
NASA Code 310-20-92-02

Iterative Design of Antenna Structures
R. Levy
NASA Code 310-20-65-01

Station Control and Operations Technology

Two-Station Interferometer Analog Input Channel
T. O. Anderson
NASA Code 310-30-68-06

DSN Research and Technology Support
E. B. Jackson and R. B. Kolbly
NASA Code 310-30-69-02

An Inventory and Procurement Policy for the Deep Space Network
I. Eisenberger, F. R. Maiocco, and G. Lorden
NASA Code 310-30-69-01

Network Control and Data Processing

A Demonstration of DSN Clock Synchronization by VLBI
W. J. Hurd
NASA Code 310-40-72-02

On the Weight Enumerators of Quadratic Residue Codes
J. Mykkeltveit, C. Lam, and R. McEliece
NASA Codes 502-33-92-03 and 310-40-70-02

Sequential Decoding With a Noisy Carrier Reference
J. W. Layland
NASA Code 310-40-72-02

An Execution Analyzer for the Sigma 5 Computer
C. C. Klimasauskas
NASA Code 310-40-72-01

Complex Mixer System
L. C. Constenla
NASA Code 310-40-72-04

A Multicomputer Communications System
J. W. Layland and W. Lushbaugh
NASA Code 310-40-72-02

NETWORK ENGINEERING AND IMPLEMENTATION

Deep Space Stations

Dual Carrier
R. H. Smith
NASA Code 312-03-12-00

A Dual-Ignitron Crowbar
E. J. Finnegan
NASA Code 311-03-14-21

Digital Frequency Shifter
R. N. MacClellan
NASA Code 312-03-31-46

Hydrostatic Bearing Runner Leveling at Overseas 64-m-Diameter Antenna
H. P. Phillips
NASA Code 311-03-42-45

OPERATIONS AND FACILITIES

Deep Space Stations

DSS Receiving System Saturation at High Signal Levels
H. C. Younger
NASA Code 311-03-14-52

Spectrum of an Asynchronously Biphase Modulated Square Wave
J. R. Lesh
NASA Code 311-03-13-11


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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