National Aeronautics and
Space Administration
National Aeronautics and
Space Administration
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California
Contents
Complete Lunar Exploration Coverage Analysis
Charles H. Lee and Kar-Ming Cheung
Uplink Arraying Next Steps
Faramaz Davarian
Combining Loss of a Transmitting Array due to Phase Errors
Larry R. D'Addario
Injection of a 100-kW Uplink Signal into the Existing 34-Meter Beam-Waveguide System
Daniel J. Hoppe and Behrouz Khayatian
Optimal Phase Lock at Femtowatt Power Levels for Coherent Optical Deep-Space Transponder
G. John Dick, Meirong Tu, Dmitry Strekalov, Kevin Birnbaum, and Nan Yu
Solar Brightness Temperature and Corresponding Antenna Noise Temperature at Microwave Frequencies
Christian Ho, Stephen Slobin, Anil Kantak, and Sami Asmar
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