National Aeronautics and
Space Administration
National Aeronautics and
Space Administration
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California
Contents Preface
Deep-Space Optical Communications Downlink Budget
from Mars: System Parameters
A. Biswas and S. Piazzolla
Deep-Space Optical Communications Downlink Budget:
Modulation and Coding
B. Moision and J. Hamkins
An Optical Array Receiver for Deep-Space
Communication through Atmospheric Turbulence
V. Vilnrotter, C.-W. Lau, M. Srinivasan, R. Mukai, and K. Andrews
On the Use of W-Band for Deep-Space Communications
S. Shambayati
A Cross-Correlated Trellis-Coded Quadrature
Modulation Representation of MIL-STD Shaped Offset Quadrature
Phase-Shift Keying
M. K. Simon and L. Li
Generalized Golomb Codes and Adaptive Coding of
Wavelet-Transformed Image Subbands
A. Kiely and M. Klimesh
Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) Codes Constructed
from Protographs
J. Thorpe
Deep Space Network Receiving Systems' Operating
Noise Temperature Measurements
C. T. Stelzried, R. C. Clauss, and S. M. Petty
Noise Temperature due to Reflector Surface
Resistivity
T. Y. Otoshi
Phase Calibration Generator
R. Hamell, B. Tucker, and M. Calhoun
Non-Parametric Evaluation of Lifetime Data
J. Shell
Control Systems of the Large Millimeter Telescope
W. Gawronski and K. Souccar
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