Within a decade, the number of spacecraft requiring support from NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN) is expected to increase by a factor of 2–3. Key drivers behind this expectation include NASA’s increasing reliance on more affordable, targeted smallsat missions, a more robust science program in general, and the emergence of multi-element human lunar exploration missions. Given that a proportional increase in the number of antennas needed to communicate with all of these missions might prove prohibitively expensive, NASA has been exploring ways to gain increased capacity from its existing antennas.


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    Title :

    Antenna Beam-Sharing: Working Toward Multiple, Simultaneous Uplinks Per Antenna


    Additional title:

    Springer Aerospace Techn.



    Conference:

    International Conference on Space Operations ; 2023 ; Dubai, United Arab Emirates March 06, 2023 - March 10, 2023


    Published in:

    Space Operations ; Chapter : 10 ; 203-234


    Publication date :

    2024-12-14


    Size :

    32 pages





    Type of media :

    Article/Chapter (Book)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English