Designing the United States' initial 'Deep-Space Networks' - Choices for the Pioneer lunar-probe attempts of 1958-59
Abstract
The paper describes two separate networks for ground-support stations, designed, respectively, by the Space Technology Laboratories (STL) and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), to support the series of early Pioneer lunar-probe attempts. Particular attention is given to the characteristics of an ideal ground-support station and to the criteria used for the selection of the antenna, the antenna station site, and the frequency for the STL and JPL networks.
- Publication:
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IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine
- Pub Date:
- February 1993
- DOI:
- 10.1109/74.210830
- Bibcode:
- 1993IAPM...35...49W
- Keywords:
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- Deep Space Network;
- Lunar Probes;
- Pioneer Project;
- Space Communication;
- Ground Stations;
- Pioneer Space Probes;
- Space Communications, Spacecraft Communications, Command and Tracking