Publication Date:
2019-08-13
Description:
Laboratory test results of the initialization and tracking performance of an existing inertial-sensor-based instrument are given. The instrument, although not primarily designed for precision antenna pointing applications, demonstrated an on-average 10-hour tracking error of several millidegrees. The system-level instrument performance is shown by analysis to be sensor limited. Simulated instrument improvements show a tracking error of less than 1 mdeg, which would provide acceptable performance, i.e., low pointing loss, for the Deep Space Network 70-m antenna subnetwork, operating at Ka-band (1-cm wavelength).
Keywords:
INSTRUMENTATION AND PHOTOGRAPHY
Type:
The Telecommunications and Data Acquisition Report 42-109: January-March 1992; 94-104
Format:
application/pdf
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