National Aeronautics and
Space Administration
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
National Aeronautics and
Space Administration
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California
Contents
OSC TASKS
DSN Advanced Systems
TRACKING AND GROUND-BASED NAVIGATION
The Mars Observer Differential One-Way Range Demonstration
P. M. Kroger, J. S. Border, and S. Nandi
NASA Code 310-10-61-90-01
Influence of an Externally Modulated Photonic Link on a Microwave Communications System
X. S. Yao and L. Maleki
NASA Code 310-10-62-16-00
Field Demonstration of X-Band Photonic Antenna Remoting in the Deep Space Network
X. S. Yao, G. Lutes, R. T. Logan, Jr., and L. Maleki
NASA Code 310-10-62-16-00
COMMUNICATIONS, SPACECRAFT-GROUND
The Electrical Conductivities of Candidate Beam-Waveguide Antenna Shroud Materials
T. Y. Otoshi and M. M. Franco
NASA Code 310-20-65-86-08
Thin-Ribbon Tapered Coupler for Dielectric Waveguides
C. Yeh, T. Y. Otoshi, and F. I. Shimabukuro
NASA Code 310-20-65-86-08
Design and Implementation of a Beam-Waveguide Mirror Control System for Vernier Pointing of the DSS-13 Antenna
L. S. Alvarez, M. Moore, W. Veruttipong, and E. Andres
NASA Code 310-20-65-92-02
Use of the Sampling Theorem to Speed Up Near-Field Physical Optics Scattering Calculations
P. W. Cramer and W. A. Imbriale
NASA Code 310-20-65-89-01
DSS-13 S-/X-Band Microwave Feed System
F. Manshadi
NASA Code 310-30-69-91-05
A 1- to 10-GHz Downconverter for High-Resolution Microwave Survey
D. McWatters
NASA Code 314-30-61-04-54
A Closed-Loop Time-Alignment System for Baseband Combining
Y. Feria
NASA Code 310-30-70-93-01
Correlator Data Analysis for the Array Feed Compensation System
B. Iijima, D. Fort, and V. Vilnrotter
NASA Code 310-30-70-89-01
Trace-Shortened Reed-Solomon Codes
R. J. McEliece and G. Solomon
NASA Code 310-30-71-83-02
Maximum-Likelihood Soft-Decision Decoding of Block Codes Using the A* Algorithm
L. Ekroot and S. Dolinar
NASA Code 310-30-71-83-02
Bit-Wise Arithmetic Coding for Data Compression
A. B. Keily
NASA Code 310-30-71-83-04
DSN Systems Implementation
CAPABILITIES FOR NEW PROJECTS
Spacecraft-Spacecraft Radio-Metric Tracking: Signal Acquisition Requirements and Application to Mars Approach Navigation
R. D. Kahn, S. Thurman, and C. Edwards
NASA Code 315-90-81-41-07
Performance Evaluation of Digital Phase-Locked Loops for Advanced Deep Space Transponders
T. M. Nguyen, S. M. Hinedi, H.-G. Yeh, and C. Kyriacou
NASA Code 315-91-10-13-08
NETWORK UPGRADE AND SUSTAINING
The Development and Application of Composite Complexity Models and a Relative Complexity Metric in a Software Maintenance Environment
J. M. Hops and J. S. Sherif
NASA Code 314-40-41-21-03
The Real-Time Display of Interferometry Data for Goldstone Radar Astronomy Data Acquisition
S. D. Howard
NASA Code 314-40-52-29-26
A New Presentation of Complex Voltage Data for Goldstone Radar Astronomy
S. D. Howard
NASA Code 314-40-52-29-26
DSN Operations
FLIGHT-GROUND ADVANCED ENGINEERING
A 32-GHz Solid-State Power Amplifier for Deep Space Communications
P. D. Wamhof, D. L. Rascoe, K. A. Lee, and F. S. Lansing
NASA Code 315-91-50-20-02
The Mars Observer Ka-Band Link Experiment
T. A. Rebold, A. Kwok, G. E. Wood, and S. Butman
NASA Code 315-91-60-10-25
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