JPL DESCANSO - Deep Space Communications and Navigation Center of Excellence

DESCANSO DSN History

DSN History Technical References List

1. The Evolution of Technology in the Deep Space Network.

Layland, J. W., and L. L. Rauch. "The Evolution of Technology in the Deep Space Network: A History of the Advanced Systems Program," TDA Progress Report PR 42-130, April-June 1997, 15 August 1997. Available here.


2. The Great Antennas of the DSN.

Potter, P. D. "Improved Dichroic Reflector Design for the 64-m Antenna S- and X-band Feed Systems," JPL Technical Report TR 32-1526, Vol. XIX: November and December 1973, 15 February 1974, pp. 55-62. Available here.

Potter, P. D. "Shaped Antenna Designs and Performance for 64-m Class DSN Antennas," DSN Progress Report PR 42-20: January-February 1974, pp. 92-111. Available here.

Galindo-Israel, V., N. Imbriale, Y. Rahmat-Samii, and T. Veruttipong. "Interpolation Methods for the GTD Analysis of Shaped Reflections," TDA Progress Report PR 42-80: October-December 1984, 15 February 1985, pp. 62-67. Available here.

Goodwin, J.P. "Usuda Deep Space Center Support for ICE," TDA Progress Report PR 42-84: October-December 1985, 15 February 1986, pp. 186-96. Available here.

Fanelli, N. A., J. P. Goodwin, S. M. Petty, T. Hayashi, T. Nishimura, and T. Takano. "Utilization of the Usuda Deep Space Center for the United States International Cometary Explorer (ICE)." Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Symposium on Space Technology and Science, Tokyo, Japan, 1986. Not Available Online.

Otoshi, T. Y., and M. M. Franco. "Dual Passband Dichroic Plate for X-Band," TDA Progress Report PR 42-94: April-June 1988, 15 August 1988, pp. 110-34. Available here.

Chen, J. C., P. H. Stanton, and H. F. Reilly. "Performance of the X-/Ka-/KABLE-Band Dichroic Plate in the DSS-13 Beam Waveguide Antenna," TDA Progress Report PR 42-115: July-September 1993, 15 November 1994, pp. 54-64. Available here.

Rafferty, William, Stephen D. Slobin, and Charles T. Stelzried. "Ground Antennas in NASA's Deep Space Telecommunications," Proceedings of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Vol. 82, No. 5, May 1994. Not Available Online.


3. Forward Command/Data Link (Uplink).

Benjauthrit, B., and T. K. Truong. "Encoding and Decoding a Telecommunication Standard Command Code," DSN Progress Report PR 42-38: January and February 1977, 15 April 1977, pp. 115-19. Available here.


4. Return Telemetry/Data Link (Downlink).

Clauss, R. C., and R. B. Quinn. "Low-Noise Receivers: Microwave Maser Development," JPL Technical Report TR 32-1526, Vol. IX: March and April 1972, 15 June 1972, pp. 128-36. Available here.

Clauss, R. C., and R. B. Wiebe. "Low-Noise Receivers: Microwave Maser Development," JPL Technical Report TR 32-1526, Vol. XIX: November and December 1973, 15 February 1974, pp. 93-99. Available here.

Ulvestad, J. S., G. M. Resch, and W. D. Brundage (National Radio Astronomy Observatory, New Mexico). "X-Band System Performance of the Very Large Array," TDA Progress Report PR 42-92: October-December 1987, 15 February 1988, pp. 123-37. Available here.

Shell, J., and D. Neff. "A 32-GHz Reflected-Wave Maser Amplifier With Wide Instantaneous Bandwidth," TDA Progress Report PR 42-94: April-June 1988, 15 August 1988, pp. 145-62. Available here.

Tanida, L. "An 8.4GHz Cryogenically Cooled HEMT Amplifier for DSS 13," TDA Progress Report PR 42-94: April-June 1988, 15 August 1988, pp. 163-69. Available here.

Bautista, J. J., G. G. Ortiz, K. H. G. Duh (GE Electronics Laboratory, New York), W. F. Kopp (GE Electronics Laboratory, New York), P. Ho (GE Electronics Laboratory, New York), P. C. Chao (GE Electronics Laboratory, New York), M. Y. Kao (GE Electronics Laboratory, New York), P. M. Smith (GE Electronics Laboratory, New York), and J. M. Ballingall (GE Electronics Laboratory, New York). "32-GHz Cryogenically Cooled HEMT Low-Noise Amplifiers," TDA Progress Report PR 42-95: July-September 1988, 15 November 1988, pp. 71-81. Available here.

Glass, G. W., G. G. Ortiz, and D. L. Johnson. "X-Band Ultralow-Noise Maser Amplifier Performance," TDA Progress Report PR 42-116, October-December 1993, 15 February 1994, pp. 246-53. Available here.

Shell, J., and R. B. Quinn. "A Dual-Cavity Ruby Maser for the Ka-Band Link Experiment," TDA Progress Report PR 42-116, October-December 1993, 15 February 1994, pp. 53-70. Available here.


5. Phase-Lock Tracking.

Jaffe, R., and E. Rechtin. "Design and Performance of Phase-Lock Circuits Capable of Near-Optimum Performance over a Wide Range of Input Signal and Noise Level," IRE Trans. Information Theory, Vol. IT-1, March 1955, pp. 66-76. Not Available Online.

Tausworthe, R. C. "Another Look at the Optimum Design of Tracking Loops," JPL-SPS 37-32, Vol. IV, 30 April 1965, pp. 281-83. Available here.

Lindsey, W. C. "The Effect of RF Timing Noise in Two-Way Communications Systems," JPL-SPS 37-32, Vol. IV, 30 April 1965, pp. 284-288. Available here.

Lindsey, W. C. "Optimum Modulation Indices for Single Channel One Way & Two-Way Coherent Communications," JPL-SPS 37-37, Vol. IV, 28 February 1966, pp. 287-90. Available here.

Lindsey, W. C., and R. C. Tausworthe. "Digital Data Transition Tracking Loops," JPL-SPS 37-50, Vol. III, 30 April 1968, pp. 272-76. Available here.

Tausworthe, R. C. "Communications Systems Development: Efficiency of Noisy Reference Detection," JPL-SPS 37-54, Vol. III, 31 December 1968, pp. 195-201. Available here.

Tausworthe, R. C. "Theory and Practical Design of Phase-Locked Receiver," JPL Technical Report TR 32-819, 27 April 1971. Not Available Online.

Layland, J. W. "Noisy Reference Effects on Multiple-Antenna Reception," DSN Progress Report PR 42-25, November and December 1974, 15 February 1975, pp. 60-64. Available here.


6. Synchronization and Detection.

Baumgartner, W. S., W. Frey, M. H. Brockman, R. W. Burt, J. W. Layland, G. M. Munson, N. A. Burow, L. Couvillon, A. Vaisnys, R. G. Petrie, C. T. Stelzried, and J. K. Woo. "Multiple-Mission Telemetry System," JPL-SPS 37-46, Vol. III, July 1967, pp. 175-243. Available here.

Tausworthe, R. C., et al. "High Rate Telemetry Project," JPL-SPS 37-54, Vol. II, 30 November 1968, pp. 71-81. Available here.

Simon, M., and A. Mileant. "DSA's Subcarrier Demodulation Losses," TDA Progress Report PR 42-85: January-March 1986, 15 May 1986, pp. 111-17. Available here.

Doerksen, I., and L. Howard. "Baseband Assembly Analog-to-Digital Converter Board," TDA Progress Report PR 42-93: January-March 1988, 15 May 1988, pp. 257-64. Available here.


7. Digital Receivers.

Kumar, R., and W. J. Hurd. "A Class of Optimum Digital Phase Locked Loops for the DSN Advanced Receiver," TDA Progress Report PR 42-83: July-September 1985, 15 November 1985, pp. 63-80. Available here.

Brown, D. H., and W. J. Hurd. "DSN Advanced Receiver: Breadboard Description and Test Results," TDA Progress Report PR 42-89: January-March 1987, 15 May 1987, pp. 48-66. Available here.

Hinedi, S. "A Functional Description of the Advanced Receiver," TDA Progress Report PR 42-100: October-December 1989, 15 February 1990, pp. 131-49. Available here.

Hinedi, S., R. Bevan, and M. Marina. "The Advanced Receiver II: Telemetry Test Results in CTA 21," TDA Progress Report PR 42-104: October-December 1990, 15 February 1991, pp. 140-56. Available here.

Sadr, R., R. Bevan, and S. Hinedi. "The Advanced Receiver II Telemetry Test Results at Goldstone," TDA Progress Report PR 42-106: April-June 1991, 15 August 1991, pp. 119-31. Available here.


8. Encoding and Decoding.

Stifler, J. J. "Instantly Synchronizable Block Code Dictionaries," JPL-SPS 37-32, Vol. IV, 30 April 1965, pp. 268-272. Available here.

Stifler, J. J., and A. J. Viterbi. "Performance of a Class of Q-Orthogonal Signals for Communication over the Gaussian Channel," JPL-SPS 37-32, Vol. IV, 30 April 1965, pp. 277-81. Available here.

Green, R. R. "A Serial Orthogonal Decoder," JPL-SPS 37-39, Vol. IV, 30 June 1966, pp. 247-52. Available here.

Lushbaugh, W. A., and J. W. Layland. "System Design of a Sequential Decoding Machine," JPL-SPS 37-50, Vol. II, 31 March 1968, pp. 71-78. Available here.

MeEleice, R. J., and J. W. Layland. "Combinatorial Communication: An Upper Bound to the Free Distance of a Tree Code," JPL-SPS 37-62, Vol. III, 30 April 1970, pp. 63-64. Available here.

Layland, J. W. "Information Systems: Performance of Short Constraint Length Convolutional Codes and a Heuristic Code-Construction Algorithm," JPL-SPS 37-64, Vol. II, August 1970, pp. 41-44. Available here.

Lushbaugh, W. A. "Information Systems: Hardware Version of an Optimal Convolutional Decoder," JPL Technical Report TR 32-1526, Vol. II: January and February 1971, 15 April 1971, pp. 49-55. Available here.

Butman, S. A., L. J. Deutsch, and R. L. Miller. "Performance of Concatenated Codes for Deep Space Missions," TDA Progress Report PR 42-63: March and April 1981, 15 June 1981, pp. 33-39. Available here.

Divsalar, D., and J. H. Yuen. "Performance of Concatenated Reed-Solomon/Viterbi Channel Coding," TDA Progress Report PR 42-71: July-September 1982, 15 November 1982, pp. 81-94. Available here.

Yuen, J. H., and Q. D. Vo. "In Search of a 2-dB Coding Gain," TDA Progress Report PR 42-83: July-September 1985, 15 November 1985, pp. 26-33. Available here.

Dolinar, S. J. "A New Code for Galileo," TDA Progress Report PR 42-93: January-March 1988, 15 May 1988, pp. 83-96. Available here.

Dolinar, S. J. "VLA Telemetry Performance With Concatenated Coding for Voyager at Neptune," TDA Progress Report PR 42-95: July-September 1988, 15 November 1988, pp. 112-33. Available here.

Statman, J., G. Zimmerman, F. Pollara, and O. Collins. "A Long Constraint Length VLSI Viterbi Decoder for the DSN," TDA Progress Report PR 42-95: July-September 1988, 15 November 1988, pp. 134-42. Available here.

Divsalar, D., M. K. Simon, and J. H. Yuen. "The Use of Interleaving for Reducing Radio Loss in Convolutionally Coded Systems," TDA Progress Report PR 42-96: October-December 1988, 15 February 1989, pp. 21-39. Available here.

Collins, O., F. Pollara, S. J. Dolinar, and J. Statman. "Wiring Viterbi Decoder (Splitting deBruijn Graphs)," TDA Progress Report PR 42-96: October-December 1988, 15 February 1989, pp. 93-103. Available here.

Berrou, C., A. Glavieux, and P. Thirimajshima. "Near Shannon Limit Error-Correcting Coding and Decoding: Turbo Codes," ICC, 1993, pp. 1064-70. Not Available Online.

Divsalar, D. and F. Pollara. "On the Design of Turbo Codes," TDA Progress Report PR 42-123, July-September 1995, 15 November 1995, pp. 99-121. Available here.

Benedetto, S., Divsalar, D., et al. "Serial Concatenation of Interleaved Codes; Performance Analysis, Design, and Iterative Decoding," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Volume 44, 1998, p. 909. Not Available Online.


9. Data Compression.

Cheung, K. M., F. Pollara, and M. Shahshahani. "Integer Cosine Transform for Image Compression," TDA Progress Report PR 42-105: January-March 1991, 15 May 1991, pp. 45-53. Available here.

Ekroot, L., S. J. Dolinar, and K. M. Cheung. "Integer Cosine Transform Compression for Galileo at Jupiter: A Preliminary Look," TDA Progress Report PR 42-115, July-September 1993, 15 November 1994, pp. 110-23. Available here.


10. Arraying of Antennas.

Urech, J. M. "Telemetry Improvement Proposal for the 85-foot Antenna Network," JPL-SPS 37-63, Vol. II, 31 May 1970, pp. 116-19. Available here.

Urech, J. M. "Processed Data Combination for Telemetry Improvement at DSS 62," JPL Technical Report TR 32-1526, Vol. II: January and February 1971, 15 April 1971, pp. 169-76. Available here.

Wilck, H. "A Signal Combiner for Antenna Arraying," DSN Progress Report PR 42-25, November and December 1974, 15 February 1975, pp. 111-17. Available here.

Winkelstein, R. A. "Analysis of the Signal Combiner for Multiple Antenna Arraying," DSN Progress Report PR 42-26, January and December 1975, 15 April 1975, pp. 102-18. Available here.

Stevens, R. "Applications of Telemetry Arraying in the DSN," TDA Progress Report PR 42-72: October-December 1982, 15 February 1983, pp. 78-82. Available here.

Layland, J. W., and D. W. Brown. "Planning for VLA/DSN Arrayed Support to the Voyager at Neptune," TDA Progress Report PR 42-82: April-June 1985, 15 August 1985, pp. 125-35. Available here.

Brown, D. W., W. D. Brundage (National Radio Astronomy Observatory), J. S. Ulvestad, S. S. Kent, and K. P. Bartos. "Interagency Telemetry Arraying for Voyager-Neptune Encounter," TDA Progress Report PR 42-102: April-June 1990, 15 August 1990, pp. 91-118. Available here.

Bartok, C. D. "Performance of the Real-Time Array Signal Combiner During the Voyager Mission," TDA Progress Report PR 42-63: March-April 1981, 15 June 1981, pp. 191-202. Available here.

Layland, J. W. "ICE Telemetry Performance," TDA Progress Report PR 42-84: October-December 1985, 15 February 1986, pp. 203-13. Available here.

Hurd, W. J., F. Pollara, M. D. Russell, B. Siev, and P. U. Winter. "Intercontinental Antenna Arraying by Symbol Stream Combining at ICE Giacobini-Zinner Encounter," TDA Progress Report PR 42-84: October-December 1985, 15 February 1986, pp. 220-28. Available here.

Foster, C., and M. Marina. "Analysis of the ICE Combiner for Multiple Antenna Arraying," TDA Progress Report PR 42-91: July-September 1987, 15 November 1987, pp. 269-77. Available here.

Rogstad, D. H. "Suppressed Carrier Full-Spectrum Combining," TDA Progress Report PR 42-107: July-September 1991, 15 November 1991, pp. 12-20. Available here.


11. Radio Metrics - Tools and Techniques.

Titsworth, R. C. "Optimal Ranging Codes," JPL Technical Report TR 32-411, 15 April 1963. Available here.

Hamilton, T. W., and W. G. Melbourne. "Information Content of a Single Pass of Doppler Data from a Distant Spacecraft," JPL-SPS 37-39, Vol. III, 31 May 1966, pp. 18-23. Available here.

Tausworthe, R. C. "Communication Systems Development: Minimizing Range Code Acquisition Time," JPL-SPS 37-42, Vol. IV, 31 December 1966, pp. 198-200. Available here.

Lushbaugh, W. L., and L. D. Rice. "Mariner Venus 67 Ranging System Digital Processing Design," JPL-SPS 37-50, Vol. II, 31 March 1968, pp. 54-61. Available here.

Goldstein, R. M. "Ranging with Sequential Components," JPL-SPS 37-52, Vol. II, 31 July 1968, pp. 46-49. Available here.

Martin, W. L. "A Binary Coded Sequential Acquisition Ranging System," JPL-SPS 37-57, Vol. II, 31 May 1969, pp. 72-81. Available here.

Martin, W. L. "Information Systems: Performance of the Binary-Coded Sequential Acquisition Ranging System of DSS 14," JPL-SPS 37-62, Vol. II, 31 March 1970, pp. 55-61. Available here.

Otoshi, T. Y. "S/X Experiment: A Study of the Effects of Ambient Temperature on Ranging Calibrations," DSN Progress Report PR 42-23, July and August 1974, 15 October 1974, pp. 45-51. Available here.

Otoshi, T. Y. "S/X Band Experiment: A Study of the Effects of Multipath on Two-Way Range," DSN Progress Report PR 42-25, November and December 1974, 15 February 1975, pp. 69-83. Available here.

Melbourne, W. G. "Navigation Between the Planets," Scientific American 234, no. 6 (June 1976): 57-74. Not Available Online.

Martin, W. L., and A. I. Zygielbaum. "Mu-II Ranging," JPL-TM 33-768, 15 May 1977. Available here.

Layland, J. W., and A. I. Zygielbaum. "On Improved Ranging-II," DSN Progress Report PR 42-50: January and February 1979, 15 April 1979, pp. 68-73. Available here.

Thurman, S. W. "Deep-Space Navigation With Differenced Data Types Part I: Differenced Range Information Content," TDA Progress Report PR 42-103: July-September 1990, 15 November 1990, pp. 47-60. Available here.

Thurman, S. W. "Deep-Space Navigation With Differenced Data Types Part II: Differenced Doppler Information Content," TDA Progress Report PR 42-103: July-September 1990, 15 November 1990, pp. 61-69. Available here.

Kahn, R. D., W. M. Folkner, C. D. Edwards, and A. Vijayaraghavan. "Position Determination of a Lander and Rover at Mars With Earth-Based Differential Tracking," TDA Progress Report PR 42-108: October-December 1991, 15 February 1992, pp. 279-93. Available here.


12. Timing Standards.

Finnie, D. "Frequency Generation and Control: Atomic Hydrogen Maser Frequency Standard," JPL Technical Report TR 32-1526, Vol. I: November and December 1970, 15 February 1971, pp. 73-75. Available here.

Dachel, P. R., S. M. Petty, R. F. Meyer, and R. L. Syndor. "Hydrogen Maser Frequency Standards for the Deep Space Network," DSN Progress Report PR 42-40, May and June 1977, 15 August 1977, pp. 76-83. Available here.

Prestage, J. D., G. J. Dick, and L. Maleki. "New Ion Trap for Atomic Frequency Standard Applications," TDA Progress Report PR 42-97: January-March 1989, 15 May 1989, pp. 58-63. Available here.

Prestage, J. D. "An Improved Linear Ion Trap Physics Package," TDA Progress Report PR 42-113, January-March 1993, 15 May 1993, pp. 1-6. Available here.


13. Earth Rotation and Propagation Media.

Winn, F. B. "Tropospheric Refracton Calibrations and Their Significance on Radio-Metric Doppler Reductions," JPL Technical Report TR 32-1526, Vol. VII: November and December 1971, 15 February 1972, pp. 68-73. Available here.

Von Roos, O. H., and B. D. Mulhall. "An Evaluation of Charged Particle Calibration by a Two-Way Dual-Frequency Technique and Alternatives to This Technique," JPL Technical Report TR 32-1526, Vol. XI: July and August 1972, 15 October 1972, pp. 42-52. Available here.

Winn, F. B., and S. R. Reinbold, K. W. Yip, R. E. Koch, and A. Lubeley. "Corruption of Radio Metric Doppler Due to Solar Plasma Dynamics: S/X Dual-Frequency Doppler Calibration for These Effects," DSN Progress Report PR 42-30, September and October 1975, 15 December 1975, pp. 88-101. Available here.

Slobin, S. D., and P. D. Batelaan. "DSN Water Vapor Radiometer - Tropospheric Range Delay Calibration," DSN Progress Report PR 42-49: November and December 1978, 15 February 1979, pp. 136-45. Available here.

Roth, M., and T. Yunck. "VLBI System for Weekly Measurement of UT1 and Polar Motion: Preliminary Results," TDA Progress Report PR 42-58: May and June 1980, 15 August 1980, pp. 15-20. Available here.

Sovers, O. J., J. L. Fanselow, G. H. Purcell, Jr., D. H. Rogstad, and J. B. Thomas. "Determination of Intercontinental Baselines and Earth Orientation Using VLBI," TDA Progress Report PR 42-71: July-September 1982, 15 November 1982, pp. 1-7. Available here.

Scheid, J. A. "Comparison of the Calibration of Ionospheric Delay in VLBI Data by the Methods of Dual Frequency and Faraday Rotation," TDA Progress Report PR 42-82: April-June 1985, 15 August 1985, pp. 11-23. Available here.

Lindquister, U. J., A. P. Freedman, and G. Blewitt. "A Demonstration of Centimeter-Level Monitoring of Polar Motion With the Global Positioning System," TDA Progress Report PR 42-108: October-December 1991, 15 February 1992, pp. 1-9. Available here.

Linfield, R. P., and J. Z. Wilcox. "Radio Metric Errors Due to Mismatch and Offset Between a DSN Antenna Beam and the Beam of a Troposphere Calibration Instrument," TDA Progress Report PR 42-114, April-June 1993, 15 August 1993, pp. 1-13. Available here.


14. Radio Science.

Levy, G. S., and G. E. Wood. "Voyager-Jupiter Radio Science Data Papers," TDA Progress Report PR 42-58: May and June 1980, 15 August 1980, pp. 114-15. Available here.

Peng, T. K., and F. F. Donivan. "Deep Space Network Radio Science System for Voyager Uranus and Galileo Missions," TDA Progress Report PR 42-84: October-December 1985, 15 February 1986, pp. 143-51. Available here.

Nelson, S. J., and J. W. Armstrong. "Gravitational Wave Searches Using the DSN," TDA Progress Report PR 42-94: April-June 1988, 15 August 1988, pp. 75-85. Available here.

Kursinski, E. R., and S. W. Asmar. "Radio Science Ground Data System for the Voyager-Neptune Encounter, Part I," TDA Progress Report PR 42-105: January-March 1991, 15 May 1991, pp. 109-27. Available here.


15. VLBI and Radio Astronomy.

Miller, J. K. "The Application of Differential VLBI to Planetary Approach Orbit Determination," DSN Progress Report PR 42-40, May and June 1977, pp. 84-90. Available here.

Moultrie, B., T. H. Taylor, and P. J. Wolff. "The Performance of Differential VLBI Delay During Interplanetary Cruise," TDA Progress Report PR 42-79, July-September 1984, 15 November 1984, pp. 35-46. Available here.

Ulvestad, J. S., and R. P. Linfield. "The Search for Reference Sources for VLBI Navigation of the Galileo Spacecraft," TDA Progress Report PR 42-84, October-December 1985, 15 February 1986, pp. 152-63. Available here.

Satorius, E. H., M. J. Grimm, G. A. Zimmerman, and H. C. Wilck. "A Finite Wordlength Implementation of a Megachannel Digital Spectrum Analyzer," TDA Progress Report PR 42-86, April-June 1986, 15 August 1986, pp. 244-54. Available here.

Quirk, M. P. (Institute for Defense Analyses, New Jersey), H. C. Wilck, M. F. Garyantes, and M. J. Grimm. "A Wideband, High-Resolution Spectrum Analyzer," TDA Progress Report PR 42-93, January-March 1988, 15 May 1988, pp. 188-98. Available here.

Treuhaft, R. N., and S. T. Lowe. "A Nanoradian Differential VLBI Tracking Demonstration," TDA Progress Report PR 42-109, January-March 1992, 15 May 1992, pp. 40-55. Available here.


16. Global Positioning System.

Lanyi, G. "Total Ionospheric Electron Content Calibration Using SERIES GPS Satellite Data," TDA Progress Report PR 42-85, January-March 1986, 15 May 1986, p. 112. Available here.

Lichten, S. M. "Precise Estimation of Tropospheric Path Delays With GPS Techniques," TDA Progress Report PR 42-100, October-December 1989, 15 February 1990, pp. 1-12. Available here.

Freedman, A. P. "Combining GPS and VLBI Earth-Rotation Data for Improved Universal Time," TDA Progress Report PR 42-105, January-March 1991, 15 May 1991, pp.1-12. Available here.

Guinn, J., J. Jee, P. Wolff, F. Lagattuta, T. Drain, and V. Sierra. "TOPEX/POSEIDON Operational Orbit Determination Results Using Global Positioning Satellites," TDA Progress Report PR 42-116, October-December 1993, 15 February 1994, pp. 163-74. Available here.


17. The Goldstone Solar System Radar.

Carpenter, R. L., and R. M. Goldstein. "Preliminary Results of the 1962 Radar Astronomy Study of Venus," JPL-SPS 37-20, Vol. IV, 30 April 1963, pp. 182-184. Available here.

Goldstein, R. M. "Radar Observations of Icarus," JPL-SPS 37-53, Vol. II, 30 September 1968, pp. 45-48. Available here.

Leu, R. L. "X-Band Radar System," JPL Technical Report TR 32-1526, Vol. XIX: November and December 1973, 15 February 1974, pp. 77-81. Available here.

Downs, G. S., R. R. Green, and P. E. Reichley. "A Radar Study of the Backup Martian Landing Sites," DSN Progress Report PR 42-36, September and October 1976, 15 December 1976, pp. 49-52. Available here.

Bhanji, A. M., M. Caplan (Varian Associates, Inc.), R. W. Hartop, D. J. Hoppe, W. A. Imbriale, D. Stone (Varian Associates, Inc.), and E. W. Stone. "High Power Ka-Band Transmitter for Planetary Radar and Spacecraft Uplink," TDA Progress Report PR 42-78, April-June 1984, 15 August 1984, pp. 24-48. Available here.

Bhanji, A. M., D. J. Hoppe, B. L. Conroy, and A. J. Freiley. "Conceptual Design of a 1-MW CW X-Band Transmitter for Planetary Radar," TDA Progress Report PR 42-95, July-September 1988, pp. 97-111. Available here.

Renzetti, N. A., T. W. Thompson, and M. A. Slade. "Relative Planetary Radar Sensitivites: Arecibo and Goldstone," TDA Progress Report PR 42-94, April-June 1988, 15 August 1988, pp. 287-93. Available here.


18. Telecommunications Performance.

Yuen, J. H., ed. Deep Space Telecommunications Engineering. New York: Plenum Press, 1983. Not Available Online.

Layland, J. W., and L. L. Rauch. "Case Studies of Technology in the DSN: Galileo, Voyager, Mariner," published in "Evolution of Technology in the Deep Space Network: A History of the Advanced Systems Program," TDA Progress Report PR 42-130, April-June 1997, August 1997. Available here.

Posner, E. C., et al. "Voyager Neptune Telemetry." Session V of ITC.USA/87, papers 87-0819 through 87-0824 of the International Telemetering Conference, Vol. XIII, cosponsered by the International Foundation for Telemetry and Instrumentation Society of America, 26-29 October 1987. Not Available Online.

Posner, E. C., L. L. Rauch, and B. D. Madsen. "Voyager Mission Telecommunication Firsts," IEEE Communications Magazine 28, no. 8 (September 1990): 22-27. Not Available Online.


19. Cost-Reduction Initiatives.

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Charles T. Stelzeried, ed. TMOD Technology and Science Program News 2, 4, 7, 8, 9 (March 1995-April 1998).


20. Ka-Band Development.

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Charles T. Stelzried, ed. TMOD Technology and Science Program News 1, 2, 3, 6, 7 (December 1994-February 1997). Available here.

Morabito, D., R. C. Clauss, and M. Speranza. "Ka-Band Atmospheric Noise-Temperature Measurements at Goldstone, California, Using a 34-Meter Beam-Waveguide Antenna," TMO Progress Report PR 42-132, February 1998. Available here.

Feria, Y., M. Belongie, T. McPheeters, and H. Tan. "Solar Scintillation Effects on Telecommunication Links at Ka-Band and X-Band," TMO Progress Report PR 42-129, May 1997. Available here.

Morabito, D. D. "The Efficiency Characterization of the DSS-13 34-Meter Beam-Waveguide Antenna at Ka-Band (32.0 GHz and 33.7 GHz) and at X-Band (8.4 GHz)," TMO Progress Report PR 42-125, May 1996. Available here.

Vilnrotter, V. A., and B. Iijima. "Analysis of Array Feed Combining Performance Using Recorded Data," TMO Progress Report PR 42-125, May 1996. Available here.

Mysoor, N. R., et al. "Performance of a Ka-Band Transponder Breadboard for Deep-Space Applications," TMO Progress Report PR 42-122, August 1995. Available here.


21. Other Technologies.

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Charles T. Stelzried, ed. TMOD Technology and Science Program News 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9 (March 1995-April 1998). Available here.


22. Optical Communications Development.

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