National Aeronautics and
Space Administration
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California
Contents Preface
Space Very Long Baseline Interferometry (SVLBI) Mission Operations
V. Altunin, K. Miller, D. Murphy, J. Smith, and R. Wietfeldt
A Navigation Model of the Continuous Outgassing Field Around a Comet
D. J. Scheeres, S. Bhargava, and A. Enzian
The 1998 Mars Global Surveyor Solar Corona Experiment
D. Morabito, S. Shambayati, S. Butman, D. Fort, and S. Finley
Design of an Opto-Electronic Receiver for Deep-Space Optical Communications
G. G. Ortiz, J. V. Sandusky, and A. Biswas
Preliminary Results of an Upgraded Atmospheric Visibility Monitoring Station
B. Sanii, A. Datta, D. Tsiang, J. Wu, and A. Biswas
Capacity of Pulse-Position Modulation (PPM) on Gaussian and Webb Channels
S. Dolinar, D. Divsalar, J. Hamkins, and F. Pollara
Stopping Rules for Turbo Decoders
A. Matache, S. Dolinar, and F. Pollara
A 32-Gigahertz Coupled-Cavity Maser Design
J. S. Shell and R. C. Clauss
Interference Effects of Deep Space Network Transmitters on IMT-2000/UMTS Receivers at S-Band
C. Ho, M. Sue, T. Peng, P. Kinman, and H. Tan
Experimental Verification of Predicted Sources of G/T Improvement for the DSS-13 Beam-Waveguide Antenna
T. Y. Otoshi, W. Veruttipong, J. Sosnowski, and R. Cirillo, Jr.
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