Citation
Abstract
This article documents the operations encompassing the International Cometary Explorer’s (ICE) encounter with the Comet Giacobini-Zinner on September 11, 19835. The ICE mission presented new challenges for the Deep Space Network (DSN) 64 meter subnetwork. Because of poor telemetry link margin predicted for Giacobini-Zinner (GZ) encounter, supplemental support by the Japanese Institute for Space and Astronautical Sciences 64-meter antenna at Usuda, Japan and the 305-meter Arecibo Radio Observatory in Puerto Rico was required. To improve the 64 meter subnetwork telemetry performance the following were also implemented: (1) Real time antenna array of 64 meter and 34 meter at a single complex and the required performance testing, (2) Nonreal time antenna array of two complexes was implemented as a backup in the event of ground or spacecraft failure. Other articles following this one provide details.
Details
- Volume
- 42-84
- Published
- February 15, 1986
- Pages
- 176–185
- File Size
- 691.3 KB