National Aeronautics and
Space Administration
National Aeronautics and
Space Administration
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California
Contents Preface
DESCRIPTION OF THE DSN
DSN Functions and Facilities
N. A. Renzetti
DSN Tracking System: Conversion to High-Speed Radio Metric Data
W. D. Chaney and H. E. Nance
NASA Code 311-03-42-94
MISSION SUPPORT
Interplanetary Flight Projects
Helios Mission Support
P. S. Goodwin
NASA Code 311-03-21-50
Planetary Flight Projects
DSN Support of the Mariner Mars 1971 Extended Mission
T. W. Howe and D. W. H. Johnston
NASA Code 311-03-21-70
Mariner Venus/Mercury 1973 Mission Support
E. K. Davis
NASA Code 311-03-21-60
Viking Mission Support
D. J. Mudgway
NASA Code 311-03-21-70
RADIO SCIENCE
Radio Science Support
K. W. Linnes
NASA Code 311-03-21-90
SUPPORTING RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY
Tracking and Ground-Based Navigation
Block IV Subcarrier Demodulator Assembly Acquisition Problem
R. B. Crow, J. K. Holmes, and R. C. Tausworthe
NASA Code 310-10-61-02
Programmed Oscillator Software Development for High-Doppler-Rate Orbiting Spacecraft
R. Emerson
NASA Code 310-10-62-04
Programmed Oscillator Tracking Accuracy Measurements
R. F. Emerson
NASA Code 310-10-62-04
Communications, Spacecraft/Ground
Low-Noise Receivers: Microwave Maser Development
E. Wiebe
NASA Code 310-20-66-01
Filtering Dual-Frequency Radio Metric Data
K. H. Rourke
NASA Code 310-10-60-53
S/X-Band Experiment: Development of Special Telecommunications Development Laboratory Support Test Equipment
T. Y. Otoshi and O. B. Parham
NASA Code 310-20-66-02
Performance of Coded, Noncoherent, Hard-Decision MSFSK Systems
I. Bar-David and S. Butman
NASA Codes 310-20-67-08 and 502-33-92-02
Efficient Antenna Systems: A New Computer Program for the Design and Analysis of High-Performance Conical Feedhorns
P. D. Potter
NASA Code 310-20-65-03
Radial Extension Study of the 64-m-Diameter Antenna
M. S. Katow
NASA Code 310-20-65-01
Convolutional Codes With a Frequency-Shift-Keying Modem
C. L. Weber
NASA Codes 310-20-67-08 and 502-33-92-02
Station Control and Operations Technology
Development Support Group
E. B. Jackson and A. L. Price
NASA Code 310-30-69-02
Efficient Signal Generation for High-Power Dual-Spacecraft Command
S. Burman
NASA Code 310-30-69-01
A New Pulsar Timer
A. Slekys
NASA Code 310-30-68-06
An Information-Theoretic Model for the Ground Communications Facility Line
O. Adeyemi
NASA Code 310-30-69-01
Network Control and Data Processing
A Myopic View of Computer-Based System Design
J. W. Layland and C. C. Klimasauskas
NASA Code 310-40-72-02
Optimum Control Logic for Successive Approximation Analog-to-Digital Converters
T. O. Anderson
NASA Code 310-40-72-01
The LEAPSIG Sigma 5-Mac 16 Cross-Assembler
H. C. Wilck
NASA Code 310-40-72-04
Models for Flicker Noise in DSN Oscillators
C. A. Greenhall
NASA Code 310-40-71-02
Matrix Multiplication With Fixed Matrices and Polynomial Evaluation With Fixed Polynomials
J. E. Savage
NASA Code 310-40-72-01
NETWORK ENGINEERING AND IMPLEMENTATION
Network Control System
DSS Command System Redesign
J. Woo
NASA Code 311-03-42-53
Network Control System
J. N. Edwards
NASA Code 311-03-32-40
Deep Space Stations
Hydrostatic Bearing Runner Damage at the Spain 64-m-Diameter Antenna
J. Chapman and K. Bartos
NASA Code 311-03-42-45
OPERATIONS AND FACILITIES
Network Operations
Mariner 9 Doppler Noise Study
A. L. Berman
NASA Code 311-03-13-20
Network Control System Operations
Bandlimited Power of an Asynchronously Biphase-Modulated Squarewave
J. R. Lesh
NASA Code 311-03-14-52
The Traceability and Reporting Program: Mariner Mars 1971 - Integration, Review, Evolution
J. A. Miccio
NASA Code 311-03-13-11
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