A new transponder and RF ground support equipment for the NASA Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS) intended to support long duration scientific balloon flights in Antarctica are described. The new balloon class transponder features a highly integrated spread spectrum receiver design based on programmable charge coupled device (CCD) correlators and digital signal processing chips. The correlator chip is a Lincoln Labs 4ABC with four CCD channels. The balloon transponder is capable of reporting an estimate of its input bit error rate using digital signal processing. The TDRSS user RF test set is based on a set of RF ground support equipment capable of providing both the RF communications and direct control and monitoring necessary for transponder testing and a two-way RF link for preflight testing.
Low-cost TDRSS communications for NASA's long duration balloon project
1993-02-01
Miscellaneous
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English
Online Contents | 1993
|Data Processing for NASA's TDRSS DAMA Channel
NTRS | 1996
|Data Processing for NASA's TDRSS Dama Channel
NTIS | 1996
|NASA's Next Generation Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System (TDRSS)
British Library Online Contents | 1996
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