Mars Exploration Rovers: telecom system design and operation highlights
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In the faster, better, cheaper era, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) continues to develop smaller and more frequent missions.
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Communications subsystems for furture missions must be low-mass and enable equivalent if not great data return to the scientific community over the current X-band (8.4 GHz) links.
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This paper will describe the scientific objectives of the missions (Cassini's) and then show the designs of the telecommunications assemblies and systems that make this tremendous accomplishment possible.