Caracterización de la antena DSA 3 para uso astronómico
Abstract
The Deep Space Antenna 3 (DSA 3) is installed in Mendoza as part of the European Space Agency network for the monitoring of interplanetary spacecraft. Argentina posess 10% of its operating time for national research projects. At the end of 2017, a technological update was carried out at the station, replacing the back-end equipment that demanded a new characterization of the station under this new configuration. We present the results of such characterization here. In addition, we worked on the generation of output data in astronomical format.This work was presented as a thesis to obtain the academic degree of Astronomy Degree, in the Faculty of Astronomical Sciences of the National University of La Plata.
- Publication:
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Boletin de la Asociacion Argentina de Astronomia La Plata Argentina
- Pub Date:
- July 2020
- Bibcode:
- 2020BAAA...61B.231S
- Keywords:
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- instrumentation: miscellaneous;
- methods: observational;
- techniques: miscellaneous