Citation
Abstract
The Viking Flight Project/Deep Space Network (DSN) Telecommunications Compatibility Test Program consists of three phases: subsystem design, system design, and system verification tests to be performed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and at the Air Force Eastern Test Range/Kennedy Space Center complexes. Subsystem design tests were performed with the Viking Orbiter (VO) and the Viking Lander (VL) during 1973. System design compatibility tests were performed with the Viking Orbiter, Viking Lander, and a multiple Viking spacecraft configuration during the summer of 1974. This article describes the system design tests and test results that provided the basis for the establishment of telecommunications system design compatibility between the DSN and the Viking Lander, Viking Orbiter, and a simulated DSN/multiple spacecraft configuration for the Mars planetary orbital operations.
Details
- Volume
- 42-24
- Published
- December 15, 1974
- Pages
- 9–34
- File Size
- 2.0 MB