Deep space tracking stations on different continents were arrayed during the encounter of the International Cometary Explorer (ICE) spacecraft with the comet Giacobini-Zinner during September 9 through 12, 1985. This is the first time that telemetry signals received on different continents have been combined to enhance signal to noise ratio. The arraying was done in non-real time using the method of symbol stream combining. The improvement in signal to noise ratio was typically 2 dB over the stronger of the two stations in each array.
Intercontinental antenna arraying by symbol stream combining at ICE Giacobini-Zinner encounter
1986-02-15
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English
Energetic ion observations during comet Giacobini-Zinner encounter
Elsevier | 1985
|Comets Halley and Giacobini-Zinner : proceedings
TIBKAT | 1986
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