Citation
Abstract
About mid-1972, JPL assumed responsibility for the operation of NASA’s STDN station at Canberra. This action was prompted by the decommissioning of DSS 41 at Woomera and increased tracking commitments for the DSN. Although _ DSS 44 (previously STDN’s Honeysuckle Apollo) is a unified S-band 26-m antenna, its coordinate system is X/Y. This article addresses the differences between the X/Y system and that of the DSN’s HA/dec, and describes how a functional system was created using subsystem assemblies from both stations.
Details
- Volume
- 42-24
- Published
- December 15, 1974
- Pages
- 115–118
- File Size
- 339.9 KB