VLBI-observation of ‘Huygens’ probe

Author

van ´t Klooster, K.

fYear

2007

fDate

17-21 Sept. 2007

Firstpage

57

Lastpage

58

Abstract

JIVE -Joint Institute for Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) in Europe -has managed under ESA contract the VLBI data acquisition of a stabile carrier-signal from Huygens´ probe during landing on Titan in January 2004, using ~17 radio telescopes. Evaluation and investigation of the data is included in the same ESA contract. The scenario was described in a previous ICATT Conference (van ´t Klooster, 2005). This presentation provides some published information of Huygens descent-trajectory as derived by JIVE. VLBI can be used for special radio-physical investigations, accurate Doppler information is a by-product. VLBI is applied now and in space-missions to come: probes, landers or spacecrafts for navigational, scientific or even telemetry tasks.

Keywords

radioastronomy; radiotelescopes; radiowave interferometry; Huygens probe; Joint Institute for Very Long Baseline Interferometry; radio astronomy; radio telescopes; Contracts; Data acquisition; Europe; Probes; Radio astronomy; Radio interferometry; Radio navigation; Radio spectrum management; Space vehicles; Telemetry; Huygens Probe; Radio Astronomy; VLBI;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Antenna Theory and Techniques, 2007 6th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sevastopol

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1584-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICATT.2007.4425115

Filename

4425115