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- From: collins@well.sf.ca.us (Steve Collins)
- Subject: Re: Mars Observer Update - 01/08/93
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- Keywords: Mars Observer, JPL
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- Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
- References: <9JAN199300533179@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov> <1993Jan9.032104.10679@ee.ubc.ca>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 02:26:20 GMT
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- KaBLE is an engineering experiment to evaluate using Ka band to communicate
- to deap space spacecraft. It can potentially support much higher data rates
- than the X-band we currently use on MO. I don't know much about the details,
- but the transponder on MO can receive and return the signal under the
- right circumstances. There is a short window where we are on the High gain
- antenna but are close enough to have the link-margin to do the experiment.
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- Steve Collins MO Spacecraft Team (AACS)
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