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.


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    Title :

    Intercontinental antenna arraying by symbol stream combining at ICE Giacobini-Zinner encounter


    Contributors:
    Hurd, W. J. (author) / Pollara, F. (author) / Russell, M. D. (author) / Siev, B. (author) / Winter, P. U. (author)


    Publication date :

    1986-02-15


    Type of media :

    Miscellaneous


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :


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