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The minitrack tracking function description, volume 1
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Mango, S. A. Watters, D. L. Englar Jr., T. S. Roettcher, C. A. |
| Copyright Year | 1973 |
| Description | The treatment of tracking data by the Minitrack system is described from the transmission of the nominal 136-MHz radio beacon energy from a satellite and the reception of this signal by the interferometer network through the ultimate derivation of the direction cosines (the angular coordinates of the vector from the tracking station to the spacecraft) as a function of time. Descriptions of some of the lesser-known functions operating on the system, such as the computer preprocessing program, are included. A large part of the report is devoted to the preprocessor, which provides for the data compression, smoothing, calibration correction, and ambiguity resolution of the raw interferometer phase tracking measurements teletyped from each of the worldwide Minitrack tracking stations to the central computer facility at Goddard Space Flight Center. An extensive bibliography of Minitrack hardware and theory is presented. |
| File Size | 8001604 |
| Page Count | 183 |
| File Format | |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19730015552 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t3sv2bx49 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1973-03-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Minitrack System Stdn Network Signal Processing Systems Analysis Data Systems Computer Programs Interferometry Antenna Arrays Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |
