The Telecommunications and Data Acquisition Progress Report 42-110

April-June 1992

E. C. Posner
Editor


August 15, 1992

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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

Precise Tracking of the Magellan and Pioneer Venus Orbiters by Same-Beam Interferometry, Part I: Data Accuracy Analysis
J. S. Border, W. M. Folkner, R. D. Kahn, and K. S. Zukor
NASA Code 310-10-60-91-01

Application of High-Precision Two-Way Ranging to Galileo Earth-1 Encounter Navigation
V. M. Pollmeier and S. W. Thurman
NASA Code 310-10-63-84-02

The Effect of Tropospheric Fluctuations on the Accuracy of Water Vapor Radiometry
J. Z. Wilcox
NASA Code 310-10-60-86-02

The Goldstone Real-Time Connected Element Interferometer
C. Edwards, Jr., D. Rogstad, D. Fort, L. White, and B. Iijima
NASA Code 310-10-63-88-01

Spacecraft-Spacecraft Very Long Baseline Interferometry, Part I: Error Modeling and Observable Accuracy
C. Edwards, Jr., and J. S. Border
NASA Code 310-10-60-91-01

Use of the VLBI Delay Observable for Orbit Determination of Earth-Orbiting VLBI Satellites
J. S. Ulvestad
NASA Code 310-10-63-50-00

Modeling the Global Positioning System Signal Propagation Through the Ionosphere
S. Bassiri and G. Hajj
NASA Code 310-10-61-84-02

Evaluation of the Table Mountain Ronchi Telescope for Angular Tracking
G. Lanyi, G. Purcell, R. Treuhaft, and A. Buffington
NASA Code 310-10-60-90-03

Deep-Space Navigation Applications of Improved Ground-Based Optical Astrometry
G. W. Null, W. M. Owen, Jr., and S. P. Synnott
NASA Code 310-10-63-65-00

COMMUNICATIONS, SPACECRAFT-GROUND

A Method for Modeling Discontinuities in a Microwave Coaxial Transmission Line
T. Y. Otoshi
NASA Code 310-20-65-86-08

DSS-13 Beam Waveguide Antenna Frequency Stability
T. Y. Otoshi and M. M. Franco
NASA Code 310-20-65-92-01

Locally Adaptive Vector Quantization: Data Compression With Feature Preservation
K.-M. Cheung and M. Sayano
NASA Code 310-30-71-83-02

Data Compression by Wavelet Transforms
M. Shahshahani
NASA Code 310-30-71-83-02

Maximal Codeword Lengths in Huffman Codes
Y. S. Abu-Mostafa and R. J. McEliece
NASA Code 310-30-71-83-02

Comparisons of Theoretical Limits for Source Coding With Practical Compression Algorithms
F. Pollara and S. Dolinar
NASA Code 310-30-71-83-02

Cascaded Convolutional Codes
F. Pollara and D. Divsalar
NASA Code 310-30-71-83-02

Binary Weight Distributions of Some Reed-Solomon Codes
F. Pollara and S. Arnold
NASA Code 310-30-71-83-04

Multiple Symbol Partially Coherent Detection of MPSK
M. K. Simon and D. Divsalar
NASA Code 310-30-71-86-99

STATION CONTROL AND SYSTEM TECHNOLOGY

A Parameter and Configuration Study of the DSS-13 Antenna Drives
W. Gawronski and J. A. Mellstrom
NASA Code 310-40-41-10-15

DSN Systems Implementation
Capabilities for New Projects

SETI Low-Frequency Feed Design Study for DSS 24
P. H. Stanton and P. R. Lee
NASA Code 314-30-69-40-06

NETWORK UPGRADE AND SUSTAINING

Feed-Forward Control Upgrade of the Deep Space Network Antennas
W. Gawronski
NASA Code 644-11-00-06-13

DSN Operations
NETWORK OPERATIONS AND OPERATIONS SUPPORT

Availability Analysis of the Traveling-Wave Maser Amplifiers in the Deep Space Network, Part I: The 70-Meter Antennas
T. N. lssa
NASA Code 314-40-21-30-02

TDA PROGRAM MANAGEMENT AND ANALYSIS

A Model for the Cost of Doing a Cost Estimate
D. S. Remer and H. R. Buchanan
NASA Code 314-40-31-30-03

Referees


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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