TY - GEN
T1 - Satellite communications with NRAO Green Bank antennas
AU - Ford, H. Alyson
AU - Ford, John M.
AU - Watts, Galen
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2015/10/21
Y1 - 2015/10/21
N2 - The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) has new opportunities to partner with organizations in addition to the NSF using the assets at the Green Bank site. The 100 m Green Bank Telescope (GBT) is the world's largest and most sensitive fully-steerable telescope, and can track at 20 deg min-1 in elevation and 40 deg min-1 in azimuth, providing the ability to track medium Earth orbit, geostationary, and deep space spacecraft. At X-band, its gain of 77 dB is unsurpassed by any fully steerable antenna. In addition to the GBT, the fully steerable, polar-mounted NRAO 140-ft telescope, with tracking rates of 20 deg min-1, and the 20 m telescope, with tracking rates of 120 deg min-1, provide a significant suite of instruments that can be deployed for spacecraft communications. Scheduled and target of opportunity observations are supported, allowing regular monitoring of and rapid response to targets.
AB - The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) has new opportunities to partner with organizations in addition to the NSF using the assets at the Green Bank site. The 100 m Green Bank Telescope (GBT) is the world's largest and most sensitive fully-steerable telescope, and can track at 20 deg min-1 in elevation and 40 deg min-1 in azimuth, providing the ability to track medium Earth orbit, geostationary, and deep space spacecraft. At X-band, its gain of 77 dB is unsurpassed by any fully steerable antenna. In addition to the GBT, the fully steerable, polar-mounted NRAO 140-ft telescope, with tracking rates of 20 deg min-1, and the 20 m telescope, with tracking rates of 120 deg min-1, provide a significant suite of instruments that can be deployed for spacecraft communications. Scheduled and target of opportunity observations are supported, allowing regular monitoring of and rapid response to targets.
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U2 - 10.1109/USNC-URSI.2015.7303510
DO - 10.1109/USNC-URSI.2015.7303510
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84954216952
T3 - 2015 USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (Joint with AP-S Symposium), USNC-URSI 2015 - Proceedings
SP - 226
BT - 2015 USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (Joint with AP-S Symposium), USNC-URSI 2015 - Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (Joint with AP-S Symposium), USNC-URSI 2015
Y2 - 19 July 2015 through 24 July 2015
ER -