Citation
Abstract
The times-of-arrival of pulses of radiation from pulsating radio sources (pulsars) have been measured at the Venus Deep Space Station (DSS) by Downs and Reichley (Ref. 1). This article describes a programmable high-speed timing source, designed to control the data sampling. A possible use of the timer, as part of a DSN navigation system, is to determine a spacecraft’s position in inertial space. It is easily controllable by computer and is intended to be part of a demonstration of remote experiment operation in which the Sigma 5 at JPL will configure pulsar experiments at DSS 13.
Details
- Volume
- XIII
- Published
- February 15, 1973
- Pages
- 133–138
- File Size
- 407.4 KB