NSSDCA ID: PSPA-00130
Availability: At NSSDC, Ready for Offline Distribution (or Staging if Digital)
Time span: 1978-12-12 to 1979-11-28
This data set consists of reduced data of signal strength for various orbits of Pioneer Venus 1 Orbiter around Venus that are used for analysis for the Gas and Plasma Environment experiment. These are NSSDC-microfilmed data from the original 12 working notebooks of tape printouts used by the principal investigator. Information contained in the listings is the following: (1) spacecraft number, (2) orbit number with entry or exit indicated, (3) ground station synthesis frequency, (4) downlink frequency, (5) time after midnight in seconds, (6) S-3X after bias removed, in Hertz, (7) ray asymptote, (8) binding ray, (9) spacecraft radial distance, (10) signal strength, (11) refractivity, (12) sun vectors X, Y, Z, in kilometers, (13) day of year in h, min, s, (14) S-frequency and S-residual, and (15) X-frequency and X-residual.
Digital images (scans) of the entire contents of the microfilm are available as data collection PSPA-00640.
Questions and comments about this data collection can be directed to: Coordinated Request and User Support Office
Name | Role | Original Affiliation | |
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Dr. Thomas A. Croft | General Contact | SRI International | tomcroft@kl.sri.com |