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- From: monta@image.mit.edu (Peter Monta)
- Subject: Re: Galileo's high-gain antenna still stuck
- In-Reply-To: henry@zoo.toronto.edu's message of Sun, 3 Jan 1993 00:17:20 GMT
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- Organization: MIT Advanced Television Research Program
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- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 16:19:18 GMT
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- henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
-
- > The on-board computers don't have the horsepower to do serious compression
- > at 100-odd kbps.
-
- Perhaps the DSN improvements currently in the pipeline would increase
- the HGA raw data rate, so that the processors would just have to send
- the data faster.
-
- Speaking of which, as I understand it, the claim is that the link
- capacity can be increased 10-fold. For HGA, that would give some
- 1+ Mb/s (assuming the better code could be run at that rate). That is
- remarkable. Where does it come from? The Gaspra briefing notes say
- that the system noise temperature will drop to 12K, 4K better than
- current; that's a couple dB. This means that maybe 8 dB has to come
- from more aperture, better coding, or out of the link margin: is there
- that much reserve in the DSN? Such a state-of-the-art system would be
- hard to improve more than incrementally, I would have thought.
-
- How will the arraying be done? Is it real-time or recorded,
- combined offline? What coding is used? Leech's notes mention
- a "50% higher data rate", plus "several magnitudes better" error
- rate; this might be another 2 dB. That's a large jump, and the
- natural question is why the new code wasn't used in the first
- place.
-
- A previous poster suggested chirping the motor: does the spare
- HGA on the ground show any such useful mechanical resonances?
-
- I think many of us here in non-JPL-land are watching all of this
- with intense interest and excitement. Best of luck.
-
- Peter Monta monta@image.mit.edu
- MIT Advanced Television Research Program
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