National Aeronautics and
Space Administration
National Aeronautics and
Space Administration
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California
Contents Preface
Optical Channel Capacity Sensitivity
J. Hamkins, S. Dolinar, and D. Divsalar
Deep-Space Optical Reception Antenna (DSORA): Aperture Versus Quality
J. V. Sandusky, D. J. Hoppe, and M. J. Britcliffe
Mercury-Ion Clock Based on a Linear Multi-Pole Ion Trap
J. D. Prestage, R. L. Tjoelker, and L. Maleki
Cryocooled Sapphire Oscillator Operating Above 35 K
G. J. Dick and R. T. Wang
Common-Source Phase Error of a Dual-Mixer Stability Analyzer
C. A. Greenhall
The Media Calibration System for Cassini Radio Science: Part I
C. Naudet, C. Jacobs, S. Keihm, G. Lanyi, R. Linfield,
G. Resch, L. Riley, H. Rosenberger, and A. Tanner
Embedding a Water Vapor Radiometer in a DSN Antenna: Experimental Results From DSS 13
A. B. Tanner
Tracking Performance of Adaptive Array Feed Algorithms for 70-Meter DSN Antennas
R. Mukai, V. Vilnrotter, and P. Arabshahi
Open- and Closed-Loop Dynamics of the High-Efficiency Antenna Subreflector
M. B. Kuczenski and W. Gawronski
A Method and a Graphical User Interface for the Creation of an Azimuth-Track-Level Look-Up Table
E. Maneri and W. Gawronski
Pointing-Error Measurements of the Master Equatorial Instrument
J. Liu and D. Girdner
Tilts of the Master Equatorial Tower
H. G. Ahlstrom, Jr., W. Gawronski, D. Girdner, E. Noskoff, and J. N. Sommerville
Determination of the Follow-up Receiver Noise-Temperature Contribution
T. Y. Otoshi
Efficiency Improvement of the Three-Meter Ka-Band Inflatable Reflectarray Antenna
J. Huang
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