National Aeronautics and
Space Administration
National Aeronautics and
Space Administration
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California
Contents
OSO TASKS
DSN Advanced Systems
TRACKING AND GROUND-BASED NAVIGATION
An Analytic Development of Orbit Determination for a Distant, Planetary Orbiter
R. K. Russell and S. W. Thurman
NASA Code 310-10-63-50-00
A Statistical Study of Radio-Source Structure Effects on Astrometric Very Long Baseline Interferometry Observations
J. S. Ulvestad
NASA Code 310-10-60-60-00
An Apparatus for the Electrodynamic Containment of Charged Macroparticles
A. Williams, R. Melbourne, L. Maleki, G. Janik. and J. Prestage
NASA Code 310-10-62-15-00
COMMUNICATIONS, SPACECRAFT-GROUND
Spin-Lattice Relaxation and the Calculation of Gain, Pump Power, and Noise Temperature in Ruby
J. R. Lyons
NASA Code 310-20-66-87-02
Performance Effects of Tie-Truss Modifications for a 70-Meter Centerline Beam Waveguide Antenna
J. J. Cucchissi
NASA Code 310-20-65-86-04
A Performance Comparison Between Block Interleaved and Helically Interleaved Concatenated Coding Systems
K.-M. Cheung and L. Swanson
NASA Code 310-30-71-83-02
On the Decoder Error Probability of Linear Codes
K.-M. Cheung
NASA Code 310-30-71-83-02
STATION CONTROL AND SYSTEM TECHNOLOGY
Automated Monitor and Control for Deep Space Network Subsystems
P. Smyth
NASA Code 310-30-70-89-02
Frame Synchronization Methods Based on Channel Symbol Measurements
S. Dolinar and K.-M. Cheung
NASA Code 310-30-71-83-02
Performance of the Image Statistics Decoder in Conjuction With the Goldstone-VLA Array
H. C. Wang and G. H. Pitt III
NASA Code 310-30-71-83-04
DSN Systems Implementation
CAPABILITIES FOR EXISTING PROJECTS
A Closed-Cycle Refrigerator for Cooling Maser Amplifiers Below 4 Kelvin
M. Britcliffe
NASA Code 314-30-42-01-34
NEW INITIATIVES
Wideband Phase-Locked Angular Modulator
L. Nguyen
NASA Code 314-30-56-57-33
Performance of the Split-Symbol Moments SNR Estimator in the Presence of Inter-Symbol Interference
B. Shah and S. Hinedi
NASA Code 314-30-56-57-33
NETWORK UPGRADE AND SUSTAINING
DSN 70-Meter Antenna Microwave Optics Design and Performance Improvements Part II: Comparison With Measurements
O. A. Bathker and S. D. Slobin
NASA Code 314-30-56-44-01
Stable Kalman Filters for Processing Clock Measurement Data
P. A. Clements, B. P. Gibbs, and J. S. Vandergraft
NASA Code 314-30-56-57-17
DSN Operations
TDA PROGRAM MANAGEMENT AND ANALYSIS
A Simple Model for DSS-14 Outage Times
H. C. Rumsey, R. Stevens, and E. C. Posner
NASA Code 055-40-01-00-96
Flight-Ground Advanced Engineering
Ka-Band MMIC Beam Steered Transmitter Array
D. L. Rascoe, A. L. Riley, J. Huang, V. Lubecke, and L. Duffy
NASA Code 315-91-50-02-02
OSSA TASKS
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
The NASA SETI Sky Survey: Recent Developments
M. J. Klein, S. Gulkis, E. T. Olsen, and N. A. Renzetti
NASA Code 199-50-62-07-02
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