Publication Date:
2019-07-12
Description:
A method for correcting the aim of a beam-waveguide microwave antenna compensates for the beam aberration that occurs during radio tracking of a target that has a component of velocity transverse to the line of sight from the tracking station. The method was devised primarily for use in tracking of distant target spacecraft by large terrestrial beam-waveguide antennas of NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN). The method should also be adaptable to tracking, by other beam-waveguide antennas, of targets that move with large transverse velocities at large distances from the antennas.
Keywords:
Man/System Technology and Life Support
Type:
NPO-30534
,
NASA Tech Briefs, June 2003; 13-14
Format:
application/pdf
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