The United States is developing an 1100-lb spacecraft, the Mariner, to be launched to the near vicinity of the planet Venus. The mission objectives are briefly described, followed by a discussion of the design constraints imposed upon the communication system by the mission and launch dates. Interplanetary space communications state-of-the-art is then discussed. Leading to a prediction of the available system bit-rate capacity for this and future missions. The general over-all design of the communication system to be employed on the Mariner mission is presented, and a detailed description is given of the mechanization of the command and telemetry systems. Emphasis is placed upon the unique synchronization method which makes possible the use of near-optimum binary data transmission techniques.


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    Title :

    Mariner Planetary Communication System


    Contributors:

    Publication date :

    1961


    Size :

    68 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English