Citation
Abstract
Multiple spacecraft vehicles for the Viking mission require simultaneous transmission of two S-band carriers from a single Deep Space Station. Past experience in high-power diplexing, coupled with dual carriers, has shown that, in addition to controlled uplink intermodulation products, a complex form of receive band interference will be generated within the ground station. Recent efforts to define and minimize these effects are being supplemented with additional resources including reconfiguration of DSS 13 for dual-carrier diplexed operation with the objective of assuring DSN capability in the Viking mode.
Details
- Volume
- XI
- Published
- October 15, 1972
- Pages
- 178–199
- File Size
- 372.5 KB