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In the era of optical communications, the currently available optical system does not provide the required observations to extract the proper measurements for optical science experiments. Science investigations should utilize the optical telecommunication links between spacecraft and Earth to examine changes in the phase, frequency, amplitude, and polarization of radio signals to investigate planetary...
Radio Science experiments currently rely on unmodulated continuous wave RF signal carrier for spectral purity and maximized signal-to-noise ratio. This requires missions to carefully schedule them away from periods of high rate telemetry. In the era of optical communications, currently designed systems experience the same problem. In this paper, a data processing architecture is derived that will...
Telemetry ranging is a technique that inserts ranging data measured by the spacecraft into the downlink telemetry stream, thereby avoiding the need to allocate downlink power for a ranging signal. This technique has many benefits depending on the mission profile, including increased data return, operational simplification, and spectrum efficiency. The present study considers a variation to the ranging...
In this paper, we analyze mathematical models of digital loops used to track the phase and timing of communications and navigations signals. The limits on the accuracy of phase and timing estimates play a critical role in the accuracy achievable in telemetry-based ranging applications. We describe in detail a practical algorithm to compute the loop parameters for discrete update (DU) and the continuous...
Recent interest in the development of hybrid RF/Optical communications has led to the installation of a “polished-panel” optical receiver evaluation assembly on the 34-meter research antenna at Deep-Space Station 13 (DSS-13) at NASA's Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex1. The test setup consists of a custom aluminum panel polished to optical smoothness, and a large-sensor CCD camera designed...
There has been considerable interest in developing and demonstrating a hybrid “polished panel” optical receiver concept that would replace the microwave panels on the Deep Space Network's (DSN) 34 meter antennas with highly polished aluminum panels, thus enabling simultaneous optical and microwave reception1. A test setup has been installed on the 34 meter research antenna at DSS-13 (Deep Space Station...
The potential development of large aperture ground-based “photon bucket” optical receivers for deep space communications has received considerable attention recently1. One approach currently under investigation proposes to polish the aluminum reflector panels of 34-meter microwave antennas to high reflectance, and accept the relatively large spotsize generated by even state-of-the-art polished aluminum...
This paper presents a new two-way, telemetry-based ranging architecture. The scheme uses a conventional uplink ranging signal, but the downlink ranging signal is replaced with an asynchronous telemetry signal whose timing relative to the acquired uplink signal is measured. This measurement, along with the acquired timing of the received telemetry, enables the round-trip light-time to be computed on...
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